BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

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Classifying the precancers: A metadata approach

Jules J Berman1* and Donald E Henson2

Author Affiliations

1 Cancer Diagnosis Program, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, USA

2 Department of Pathology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C, USA

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2003, 3:8 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-3-8

Published: 20 June 2003

Additional files

Additional File 1:

Presum.htm is the classification file for the precancers, in viewable HTML format.

Format: HTM Size: 773KB Download file

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Additional File 2:

Omimprec.htm contains inherited conditions associated with cancer risks, in HTML format. OMIM (online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) numbers are provided for each lesion.

Format: HTM Size: 71KB Download file

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Additional File 3:

Presum.tar.gz is a tarballed-gzipped compressed file containing presum.xml, the XML data file of the precancer classification, and presum.pl, a Perl script that transforms the XML file into a viewable HTML file, presum2.htm

Format: GZ Size: 42KB Download file

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