targeted_therapy #

The concept we in STRONG AYA refer to as “targeted_therapy” is identifiable through shortcode ncit:C93352.
In standard vocabularies this shortcode refers to “Targeted Therapy” and is defined as “A type of cancer treatment that uses testing and medication to more precisely identify and treat cancer. These treatments target and disable genes or proteins necessary to the proliferation of cancer cells.”

targeted_therapy values #

In STRONG AYA, this concept is recorded as “no”, “yes” and “missing_or_unspecified”.

The value we in STRONG AYA refer to as “no” is identifiable through shortcode ncit:C49487.
In standard vocabularies this shortcode refers to “No” and is defined as “The non-affirmative response to a question.”

The value we in STRONG AYA refer to as “yes” is identifiable through shortcode ncit:C49488.
In standard vocabularies this shortcode refers to “Yes” and is defined as “The affirmative response to a question.”

The value we in STRONG AYA refer to as “missing_or_unspecified” is identifiable through shortcode ncit:C54031.
In standard vocabularies this shortcode refers to “Missing” and is defined as “Not existing; not able to be found.”