THE ATHENA BREAST HEALTH NETWORK adopted the Health Level Seven International-approved guide for sharing electronic data for breast cancer treatment. The guide was developed by the American Society for Clinical Oncology and approved through HL7 to become a national data standard.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
