Open AccessThe University of California, San Francisco Documentation System for Retinoblastoma: Preparing to Improve Staging Methods for This Disease
Author(s) -
Bertil Damato,
Armin R. Afshar,
Lesley Everett,
Anuradha Banerjee,
Steven W. Hetts
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ocular oncology and pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2296-4681
pISSN - 2296-4657
DOI - 10.1159/000488147
Subject(s) - medicine , retinoblastoma , documentation , disease , ophthalmology , computer science , gene , programming language , biochemistry , chemistry
Current retinoblastoma staging systems do not adequately describe the disease, especially in eyes with multiple tumors. The aims of this study were to develop methods for documenting individual tumors and to score disease burden over time.