HL7 Europe Common Cancer Model, published by HL7 Europe. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/hl7-eu/cancer-common/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
A patient’s cancer journey is a longitudinal sequence of events that starts with presentation and evidence gathering, continues through condition assertion and staging, proceeds to treatment (often in overlapping episodes), and is followed by ongoing assessment of response and disease status. Capturing dates consistently for each step is essential so the timeline can be accurately reconstructed for care and research.
Figure 1: the cancer journey [click to zoom]
Overall journey
Figure 2: the cancer journey: overall flow
This diagram shows the main phases of the cancer journey
and indicates at which phases information is collected.
Data Collection per step
From diagnosis to first follow-up
Figure 3: the cancer journey: from diagnosis to first follow-up
From first follow-up to first drug treatment
Figure 4: the cancer journey: from first follow-up to first drug treatment
From first drug treatment to patient death
Figure 5: the cancer journey: from first drug treatment to patient death
Data evolution
From diagnosis to radiotheraphy
Figure 6 Data evolution: from dignosis to radiotheraphy
