Nathanael R. Fillmore
Publications / 2020
paper
Patterns2020doi:10.1016/j.patter.2020.100083

The Veterans Affairs Precision Oncology Data Repository, a Clinical, Genomic, and Imaging Research Database.

Danne C. Elbers†, Nathanael R. Fillmore†, Feng-Chi Sung, Spyridon S. Ganas, Andrew Prokhorenkov, Christopher Meyer, Robert B. Hall, Samuel J. Ajjarapu, Daniel C. Chen, Frank Meng, Robert L. Grossman, Mary T. Brophy, Nhan V. Do

† Equal first authorship

Summary

The Veterans Affairs Precision Oncology Data Repository provides a nationwide collection of integrated clinical, genomic, and imaging data from patients with cancer. This resource enables researchers to conduct large-scale translational studies to improve personalized cancer treatment for the Veteran population.

Key result

The Veterans Affairs Precision Oncology Data Repository provides a nationwide database of de-identified longitudinal clinical records, targeted tumor sequencing, and medical imaging data to facilitate translational cancer research.

Abstract

The Veterans Affairs Precision Oncology Data Repository (VA-PODR) is a large, nationwide repository of de-identified data on patients diagnosed with cancer at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Data include longitudinal clinical data from the VA's nationwide electronic health record system and the VA Central Cancer Registry, targeted tumor sequencing data, and medical imaging data including computed tomography (CT) scans and pathology slides. A subset of the repository is available at the Genomic Data Commons (GDC) and The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA), and the full repository is available through the Veterans Precision Oncology Data Commons (VPODC). By releasing this de-identified dataset, we aim to advance Veterans' health care through enabling translational research on the Veteran population by a wide variety of researchers.

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Key figure from The Veterans Affairs Precision Oncology Data Repository, a Clinical, Genomic, and Imaging Research Database.