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Organ

MeaningPhrases
Lunglung, lung cancer, pulmonary
Breastbreast, breast cancer, mbc, ebc
Skinskin, skin cancer, cutaneous
Haematologicalblood cancer, haematological malignancy, hematologic malignancy
Uterusuterus, uterine
Bladderbladder
Kidneykidney, renal, kidney tumour, kidney tumor
Liverliver, hepatic, liver tumour, liver tumor

Organ system

MeaningPhrases
Thoracicthoracic, thorax, thoracic oncology
Gastrointestinalgi, gastrointestinal, gi tract, digestive, gastrointestinal cancers
Gynaecologicalgyn, gynecologic, gynaecologic, gynaecological, gynecological
Genitourinarygu, genitourinary, urologic, urological, uro
Haematologicalheme, haem, hematology, haematology, hematologic, haematological, lymphoma and leukaemia
CNScns, brain, neuro oncology
Endocrineendocrine
Head and neckhead and neck, head and neck cancer, head and neck cancers, head and neck tumours, head and neck tumors
Eyeeye, eye cancer, eye tumours, eye tumors, ocular tumours
Musculoskeletalmusculoskeletal, bone and soft tissue, bone and soft tissue tumours, bone and soft tissue tumors

Combined phrases

MeaningPhrases
dMMR/MSI-Hdmmr, msi h, msi high
pMMR/MSSpmmr, mss, microsatellite stable
Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukaemiaph+ all, ph positive all, philadelphia positive all, ph+ b all
HER2-lowher2 low, her2low
HER2-ultralowher2 ultralow
Extensive-stage SCLCes sclc, extensive stage sclc, extensive stage small cell lung cancer, extensive disease sclc
Limited-stage SCLCls sclc, limited stage sclc, limited stage small cell lung cancer, limited disease sclc
HR-positive breast cancerluminal
Triple-positive breast cancertriple positive
Stage IIIstage iii, stage iiia, stage iiib, stage iiic, stage 3, stage 3a, stage 3b, stage 3c
RAS wild-typeras wt, ras wild type, ras wildtype, ras negative
KRAS G12Ckras g12c, g12c
Lynch syndrome (dMMR)lynch syndrome, lynch
Follicular thyroid cancerfollicular thyroid cancer, follicular thyroid carcinoma, ftc, hurthle cell carcinoma, hurthle, oncocytic thyroid carcinoma
Ph-negative (BCR::ABL1)ph negative, ph neg, philadelphia negative, philadelphia chromosome negative
Oesophageal squamous cell carcinomaescc, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma, esophageal scc, oesophageal scc
Oesophageal adenocarcinomaeac, esophageal adenocarcinoma, oesophageal adenocarcinoma
Lung adenocarcinomalung adenocarcinoma, adenocarcinoma of the lung, nsclc adenocarcinoma
Squamous NSCLCsquamous nsclc, nsclc squamous, squamous lung cancer, squamous cell lung cancer, lung squamous cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma of the lung
Non-squamous NSCLCnon squamous nsclc, nonsquamous nsclc, nsclc non squamous, nsclc nonsquamous, non squamous lung cancer
Clear cell renal cell carcinomaccrcc, cc rcc
Non-clear cell renal cell carcinomanccrcc, non clear cell rcc
Papillary renal cell carcinomaprcc
High-grade serous ovarian cancerhgsoc
Low-grade serous ovarian cancerlgsoc
Differentiated thyroid cancerdtc
Papillary thyroid cancerptc
Medullary thyroid cancermtc
Lymphomalymphoma, lymphomas
Non-Hodgkin lymphomanhl, non hodgkin, non hodgkin lymphoma, non hodgkin lymphomas, non hodgkin's lymphoma, non hodgkins lymphoma
B-cell lymphomab cell lymphoma, b cell lymphomas, b nhl, b cell nhl, b cell non hodgkin lymphoma
Leukaemialeukaemia, leukemia, leukaemias, leukemias
Acute leukaemiaacute leukaemia, acute leukemia
Chronic leukaemiachronic leukaemia, chronic leukemia
FGFR1fgfr1, fgfr 1
FGFR2fgfr2, fgfr 2
FGFR3fgfr3, fgfr 3
FGFR4fgfr4, fgfr 4
IDH1idh1, idh 1
IDH2idh2, idh 2
PDGFRApdgfra, pdgfr a, pdgfralpha, pdgfr alpha, pdgfrα, pdgfr α
PDGFRBpdgfrb, pdgfr b, pdgfrbeta, pdgfr beta, pdgfrβ, pdgfr β
Gastro-oesophageal junction adenocarcinomagej, gej adenocarcinoma, gej cancer, gastro oesophageal junction, gastroesophageal junction, gastro esophageal junction, gastro oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, gastro oesophageal junction cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, junctional adenocarcinoma
Cholangiocarcinomacholangiocarcinoma, cca, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, bile duct cancer
Gallbladder cancergallbladder, gallbladder cancer, gallbladder carcinoma, gall bladder cancer
Pancreatic NETpnet, pnets, pannet, pancreatic net, pancreatic nets, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours, pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm
Gastrointestinal NETgi net, gastrointestinal net, gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumour, gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumor, midgut net, small intestinal net, intestinal net, si net
Lung NETlung net, lung nets, lung neuroendocrine tumour, lung neuroendocrine tumor, lung carcinoid, bronchial carcinoid, pulmonary carcinoid, typical carcinoid, atypical carcinoid, bronchopulmonary net
Castration-resistant prostate cancercrpc, castration resistant prostate cancer, castrate resistant prostate cancer
mCRPCmcrpc, metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer
nmCRPCnmcrpc, nm crpc, non metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer
Hormone-sensitive prostate cancerhspc, cspc, hormone sensitive prostate cancer, castration sensitive prostate cancer
mHSPCmhspc, mcspc, metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer, metastatic castration sensitive prostate cancer
nmHSPCnmhspc, non metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer
NMIBCnmibc, non muscle invasive bladder cancer, non muscle invasive
MIBCmibc, miuc, muscle invasive bladder cancer, muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma, muscle invasive
Low-grade gliomalow grade glioma, lgg, plgg, paediatric low grade glioma, pediatric low grade glioma, pilocytic astrocytoma
High-grade gliomahigh grade glioma, hgg, glioblastoma, gbm, astrocytoma grade 4, grade 4 astrocytoma, diffuse midline glioma, dipg
SEGAsega, subependymal giant cell astrocytoma
Pleural mesotheliomapleural mesothelioma, malignant pleural mesothelioma, mpm
Peritoneal mesotheliomaperitoneal mesothelioma, malignant peritoneal mesothelioma
DFSPdfsp, dermatofibrosarcoma, dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
Acute promyelocytic leukaemiaapl, acute promyelocytic leukaemia, acute promyelocytic leukemia
t-AML or AML-MRCt aml, therapy related aml, therapy related acute myeloid leukaemia, therapy related acute myeloid leukemia, aml mrc, secondary aml, aml with myelodysplasia related changes
Chronic phase CMLcp cml, cml cp, chronic phase cml
Myelofibrosismyelofibrosis, primary myelofibrosis, pmf, post pv myelofibrosis, post et myelofibrosis, secondary myelofibrosis
Polycythaemia verapolycythaemia vera, polycythemia vera, polycythaemia, polycythemia
Essential thrombocythaemiaessential thrombocythaemia, essential thrombocythemia
HES or CELhes, hypereosinophilic syndrome, cel, chronic eosinophilic leukaemia, chronic eosinophilic leukemia
Advanced systemic mastocytosisadvanced systemic mastocytosis, advsm, aggressive systemic mastocytosis, asm, sm ahn, systemic mastocytosis with associated haematological neoplasm, mast cell leukaemia, mast cell leukemia
Indolent systemic mastocytosisindolent systemic mastocytosis, ism, smouldering systemic mastocytosis, smoldering systemic mastocytosis
Smouldering myelomasmouldering myeloma, smoldering myeloma, smouldering multiple myeloma, smoldering multiple myeloma, smm
B-cell ALLb all, bcp all, b cell all, b cell precursor all, b cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, b cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, b lbl
T-cell ALLt all, t cell all, t cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, t lbl, t lymphoblastic lymphoma
Classical Hodgkin lymphomachl, classical hodgkin lymphoma, classical hodgkin
NLPHLnlphl, nlpbl, nodular lymphocyte predominant hodgkin lymphoma, nodular lymphocyte predominant b cell lymphoma
DLBCLdlbcl, dlbcl nos, diffuse large b cell lymphoma
HGBLhgbl, high grade b cell lymphoma, double hit lymphoma, triple hit lymphoma
PMBCLpmbcl, primary mediastinal large b cell lymphoma, primary mediastinal b cell lymphoma
FL grade 3Bfl3b, fl grade 3b, grade 3b follicular lymphoma, follicular lymphoma grade 3b
Cutaneous T-cell lymphomactcl, cutaneous t cell lymphoma, cutaneous lymphoma, mycosis fungoides, sezary syndrome, sezary
Systemic T-cell lymphomaptcl, systemic t cell lymphoma, peripheral t cell lymphoma, alcl, anaplastic large cell lymphoma, systemic alcl, systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma
Platinum-sensitiveplatinum sensitive, platinum sensitive relapse, platinum sensitive relapsed, platinum sensitive recurrent
Platinum-resistantplatinum resistant, platinum refractory

Histology

MeaningPhrases
Squamous cell carcinomasquamous, squamous cell, squamous cell carcinoma, squamous cell cancer, squamous carcinoma, scc
Non-squamousnon squamous, nonsquamous, non squamous cell
Adenocarcinomaadenocarcinoma, adenocarcinomas, adeno
Epithelioidepithelioid, epitheloid
Non-epithelioidnon epithelioid, non epitheloid
Sarcomatoidsarcomatoid
Biphasicbiphasic
High-grade seroushigh grade serous, hgsc
High-gradehigh grade, high grade epithelial
Other high-gradeother high grade, high grade non serous, non serous high grade
Low-gradelow grade, low grade serous, lgsc
Serousserous
Endometrioidendometrioid
Clear cellclear cell
Non-clear cellnon clear cell
Papillarypapillary
Chromophobechromophobe
Differentiateddifferentiated
Medullarymedullary
Anaplasticanaplastic
Stomachstomach
Castration-resistantcastration resistant, castrate resistant
Hormone-sensitivehormone sensitive, castration sensitive, hormone naive
Pleuralpleural
Peritonealperitoneal
Platinum-sensitiveplatinum sensitive, platinum sensitive relapse, platinum sensitive relapsed, platinum sensitive recurrent
Platinum-resistantplatinum resistant, platinum refractory
Chronic phasechronic phase
Accelerated phaseaccelerated phase
Blast phaseblast phase, blast crisis, lymphoid blast
FL grade 1–3Agrade 1 3a, grade 1 2, grade 1 to 3a
Other sarcomasother sarcoma
Other AMLother aml
Multiple myelomaactive myeloma, symptomatic myeloma

Line of therapy

MeaningPhrases
1st line1l, 1st line, first line, frontline, front line, treatment naive, untreated, previously untreated, naive, newly diagnosed
2nd line2l, 2nd line, second line, second
2nd line or laterendocrine resistant, endocrine refractory, endocrine pretreated, previously treated, pretreated, pre treated, after progression, progression, progressed, refractory, relapsed, relapsed/refractory, relapsed refractory, r/r, recurrent, after chemotherapy, after chemo, after platinum, after io, after immunotherapy
3rd line or later3l, 3l+, 3rd line, third line, later line, later lines, late line, heavily pretreated, multiply relapsed, after two prior, after 2 prior, >=3l, ≥3l, 4l, fourth line, beyond second line, after 2 prior therapies, after two prior therapies, after at least two

Setting

MeaningPhrases
neoadjuvantneoadjuvant, neo adjuvant, neoadj, preoperative
adjuvantadjuvant, adj, postoperative, postoperative therapy, resected, after resection, after surgery
perioperativeperioperative, periop, peri operative
maintenancemaintenance, maintenance therapy
inductioninduction
consolidationconsolidation
earlyearly, early stage, early stage disease, resectable, operable, stage i, stage ii, localised, localized
locally advancedlocally advanced
advancedadvanced, unresectable, inoperable
metastaticmetastatic, metastasised, metastasized, metastases, metastasis, stage iv, m1, mets, brain metastases, brain metastasis, brain mets, cns metastases, liver metastases, bone metastases
non metastaticnon metastatic, nonmetastatic, m0, non metastasised, non metastasized

Result

MeaningPhrases
positivepositive, pos, +, overexpression, expressing, high
negativenegative, neg, wild type, wildtype, wt
lowlow
ultralowultralow, ultra low
deficientdeficient
proficientproficient
mutationmutation, mutations, mutated, mutant, mut, variant
fusionfusion, fusions, rearrangement, rearranged, translocation
amplificationamplification, amplified, amp

Question

MeaningPhrases
New approvalsnew, latest, recent, recently approved, what's new, whats new, new approvals, new in the last 12 months, new this year
What to testtest, testing, what to test, test panel, panel, reflex, reflex testing, biomarker testing, molecular testing, which biomarkers, biomarker panel, testing panel
Cut-offscut off, cut offs, cutoff, cutoffs, threshold, thresholds, scoring

Age

MeaningPhrases
Paediatricpediatric, paediatric, children, child, kids, adolescent, adolescents
Adultsadult, adults

Approval

MeaningPhrases
Conditional approvalconditional, conditional approval, conditional marketing authorisation
Orphan medicineorphan, orphan drug, orphan medicine, orphan designation

Regimen

MeaningPhrases
Monotherapymono, monotherapy, single agent, single agent therapy
Combinationcombination, combinations, combo, combined

Test method

MeaningPhrases
IHCihc, immunohistochemistry, immunohistochemical
ISHish, fish, cish, sish, in situ hybridisation, in situ hybridization
Molecular (NGS/PCR)ngs, pcr, sequencing, molecular, dna, rna, liquid biopsy, ctdna
flow-cytometryflow, flow cytometry, facs
cytogeneticscytogenetics, karyotype

Scoring system

MeaningPhrases
TPStps, tumour proportion score, tumor proportion score
CPScps, combined positive score
ICic score, immune cell score
TCtc score
TAPtap, tap score, tumour area positivity, tumor area positivity
H-scoreh score, hscore
Allredallred