Operational Ontology for Oncology: A Framework for Improved Communication and Understanding in Cancer Care

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: david.hong@med.usc.edu.
• ² Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• ³ Department of Radiation Therapy, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• ⁴ Radiation Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
• ⁵ American Society for Radiation Oncology, Arlington, Virginia.
• ⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.