Developing a Philippine cancer grid. Part 1: Building a prototype for a data retrieval system for breast cancer research using medical ontologies

Abstract

Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the Philippines. Developed within the context of a Philippine Cancer Grid, the present study used web development technologies such as PHP, MySQL, and Apache server to build a prototype data retrieval system for breast cancer research that incorporates medical ontologies from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.