Tumor Board

Summary:

As of May 2025, Tumor Board encounters are defined using the EPIC patient encounter data tables. Specifically, Thoracic Tumor Board patients are identified based on their primary site descriptions in the Neural Frame diagnoses data, which include diagnoses of lung, bronchus, or thymus cancers in addition to having a Tumor Board encounter.

Note: Thoracic Tumor Board definition will be narrowed further due to observations from cross-comparison between encounter data in Epic Hyperspace versus Epic Clarity.

As of May 2025, From 12,975 patients with thoracic cancer, 2,662 also had a Tumor Board encounter.

Summary of Patient Population

The demographic categories examined include Age, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity.

Thoracic Tumor Board
Characteristic Count (N) Percentage (%)
Total Total number of pts 2,662 100
Age 0-17 2 0
Age 18-44 92 3
Age 45-64 627 24
Age 65+ 1,941 73
Sex Male 1,222 46
Sex Female 1,439 54
Sex Unknown 1 0
Race American Indian-Alaska Native 8 0
Race Asian 834 31
Race Native Hawaii 26 1
Race Black 71 3
Race White 1,420 53
Race Other-Unknown 303 11
Ethnicity Hispanic Latino 193 7
Ethnicity NOT Hispanic Latino 2,407 90
Ethnicity Other-Missing 62 2

Neural Frame Case Status

The Stanford Cancer Registry keeps track of every cancer case at Stanford and uses the case status variable to monitor each case’s progress. The major categories are: Completed, Not Reportable, and Incomplete.

  • Not Reportable cases refer to cases that are not reportable to the state per cancer registry rules, or those that have already been abstracted.

  • Incomplete cases are reportable and have been abstracted, but are marked as incomplete due to pending treatment information or unresolved edit errors. These edits can arise for a variety of reasons, such as version changes by the state registry or code updates by standard-setting agencies.

  • Completed cases are reportable, have been fully abstracted, and have passed all edit checks. These cases are transmitted to the state.

Please note that the Incomplete case status is eventually updated to either Completed or Not Reportable.

The distribution of case status for Thoracic Tumor Board encounter patients are listed below:

Case Status Number of Patients
Complete 2,228
Incomplete 130
Not Reportable 304

Image Occurrence

As of May 2025, 2,659 with thoracic tumor board encounter had image occurrence procedures.

Note: The following modality source values without image pixel were excluded from the analysis:

SR: Structured Report, REG: Registration, KO: Key Object Selection, PR: Presentation State