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A user of the caBIG® Clinical Information Suite uses the 7th Edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Cancer Classification system to stage cancer patients. The 8th Edition has now come out and the user would like to upgrade the system to meet the requirements of the state cancer registry. Re-coding the infrastructure for all cancer types in Java is expected to be quite expensive and time consuming. The user queries the ECCF registry for "AJCC Cancer Classification" and finds a plugin reasoner service that implements an OWL version of the AJCC 8th Edition classification system capable of inferring an anatomic stage based on data directly from pathology, imaging, and clinical exam input through a service. The user's system is now able to move with the speed of Cancer Registry requirements rather than the pace of the software vendor.
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