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Since 1997, EVS has worked with many partners to build shared content and services, so that information can be effectively exchanged, interpreted and analyzed while minimizing overall effort and cost. Much of this content has been created and published using NCI Thesaurus and NCI Metathesaurus, as outlined in the following sections and described in more detail in the individual user profiles later, where other shared development efforts are also described.

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NCI Thesaurus (NCIt)

NCI Thesaurus (NCIt) is NCI's core reference terminology. It has also been adopted by FDA, CDISC, NCPDP and other partners as a shared standards development and coding environment, allowing participants to compare and harmonize with each other's content while taking advantage of full-text definitions, codes, and other features.

About 125,000 out of the 178,080 current NCIt concepts have terms from both EVS and from one or more of these other sources. The chart below gives a detailed breakdown of the main areas of overlapping tagged content. Note that some partners have used NCI terms rather than tagging their own, so these figures understate the true extent of cross-source sharing.

NCIt concepts with terms from tagged outside sources (24.07E: July 2024)

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NCIt concepts with tagged synonyms from each outside source (24.07E: July 2024)

NCIt Concepts

Source

3ACC
1182ACC/AHA
2016

BRIDG

408CareLex
56CBDD
268

CCPS

28113CDISC
799CDISC-GLOSS
2470Cellosaurus
3654CPTAC
406CRCH
8924CTCAE
280CTDC
428CTEP
28606CTRP
636DIPG/DMG
1076EDQM-HC
28882FDA
239GAIA
12505GDC
1649HemOnc
127HL7
106ICD-10
664ICDC
216ICH
215INC
5660mCode
1281MedDRA
150MRCT-Ctr
23NAACCR
246NCCN
510NCPDP
6NDC
4783NICHD
826OORO
71ORCHESTRA
1862PCDC
40PI-RADS
211PRO-CTCAE
377SEER
662SeroNet
344UBERON
284UCUM

NCI Metathesaurus (NCIm)

NCI Metathesaurus (NCIm) was started in the late 1990s to gather up, translate between, and publish the many terminologies used by NCI, including some created in part or whole within NCI. Development of NCI Thesaurus started within NCIm as NewPDQ, an effort to extend and restructure the PDQ Terminology long used to code cancer clinical trial, research and public information resources. NCIm continues to provide a vital environment for EVS collaboration with NCI and other partners to develop, map and publish terminologies of shared interest, and responds to the requirements of a broad range of stakeholders within the cancer research and biomedical community.

NCIt tagged content from outside sources is imported into NCIm with separate source tags. NCIt-derived sources are grouped separately below. 

NCIm sources and the number of concepts to which each contributes (202408: August 2024)

NCIm concepts

Source Label - NCIt-derived

Source Name

1177ACC-AHAAmerican College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Clinical Data Terminology, 2024_06D
334BioCBioCarta online maps of molecular pathways, adapted for NCI use, 2024_06D
27BRIDGBiomedical Research Integrated Domain Group Model, 2024_06D
1148BRIDG_3_0_3Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group Model, 3.0.3, 2024_06D
1658BRIDG_5_3Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group Model, 5.3, 2024_06D
20456caDSRCancer Data Standards Registry and Repository, 2024_06D
407CARELEXContent Archive Resource Exchange Lexicon, 2024_06D
53CBDDChemical Biology and Drug Development Vocabulary, 2024_06D
265CCPSChildhood Cancer Predisposition Study, 2024_06D
922CDCU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2024_06D
29309CDISCClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, 2024_06D
800CDISC-GLOSSClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Glossary Terms, 2024_06D

2485

CELLOSAURUSCellosaurus, 2024_06D
3678CPTACClinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium, 2024_06D
406CRCHCancer Research Center of Hawaii Nutrition Terminology, 2024_06D
775CTCAECommon Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, 2024_06D
5599CTCAE_3Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events 3.0, 2024_06D
4022CTCAE_5Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events 5.0, 2024_06D
276CTDCClinical Trial Data Commons, 2024_06D
373CTEP-SDCCancer Therapy Evaluation Program - Simple Disease Classification, 2024_06D
28536CTRPClinical Trials Reporting Program, 2024_06D
904DCPNCI Division of Cancer Prevention Program, 2024_06D
114DICOMDigital Imaging Communications in Medicine, 2024_06D
627DIPG_DMGDiffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma/Diffuse Midline Glioma Terminology, 2024_06D
694DTPNCI Developmental Therapeutics Program, 2024_06D
1076EDQM-HCEuropean Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare, 2024_06D
27764FDAU.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2024_06D
207GAIAGlobal Alignment of Immunization Safety Assessment in pregnancy, 2024_06D
6092GDCNCI Genomic Data Commons, 2024_06D
281GENCGeopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes Standard, 2024_06D
1648HemOncHematology-Oncology (HemOnc) Chemotherapy Regimen Vocabulary, 2024_06D
106ICD-10International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, 2024_06D
693ICDCNCI Integrated Canine Data Commons, 2024_06D
215ICHInternational Conference on Harmonization, 2024_06D
215INCInternational Neonatal Consortium, 2024_06D
156JAXJackson Laboratories Mouse Terminology, adapted for NCI use, 2024_06D
244KEGGKEGG Pathway Database, 2024_06D
5661mCodeMinimal Common Oncology Data Elements, 2024_06D
187216NCINational Cancer Institute Thesaurus, 2024_06D
150MRCT-CtrMRCT Center Clinical Research Plain Language Glossary, 2024_06D
5079NCI-GLOSSNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms, 2024_06D
6004NCI-HGNCNCI HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, 2024_06D
129NCI-HL7NCI Health Level 7, 2024_06D
509NCPDPNational Council for Prescription Drug Programs, 2024_06D
5NDCNational Drug Code, 2024_06D
4779NICHDNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2024_06D
825OOROOperational Ontology for Radiation Oncology, 2024_06D
70ORCHESTRAORCHESTRA, 2024_06D
1831PCDCPediatric Cancer Data Commons, 2024_06D
39PI-RADSProstate Imaging Reporting and Data System, 2024_06D
169PIDNational Cancer Institute Nature Pathway Interaction Database, 2024_06D
210PRO-CTCAEPatient Reported Outcomes version of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, 2024_06D
310RENIRegistry Nomenclature Information System, 2024_06D
659SeroNetSerological Sciences Network Terminology, 2024_06D
236UBERONUBERON Ontology, 2024_06D
1557UCUMUnified Code for Units of Measure, 2024_06D
78WHOWorld Health Organization (WHO) Terminology, 2024_06D
25ZFINZebrafish Model Organism Database, 2024_06D

NCIm concepts

Source Label - Other

Source Name

15885AODAlcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus, 2000
276AOTAuthorized Osteopathic Thesaurus, 2003
13257CBOClinical Bioinformatics Ontology, 2011_02
544CCSR_ICD10CMClinical Classifications Software Refined for ICD-10-CM, 2024
357CCSR_ICD10PCSClinical Classifications Software Refined for ICD-10-PCS, 2024
962CDCRECRace & Ethnicity - CDC, 1.2
3081COSTARCOSTAR, 1989-1995
16483CSPCRISP Thesaurus, 2006
3839CSTCOSTART, 1995
318CTEPCancer Therapy Evaluation Program, 2004
642CVXVaccines Administered, 2024_02_15
12392DRUGBANKDrugBank, 5.0_2024_02_09
7289DXPDXplain, 1994
102550FMAFoundational Model of Anatomy Ontology, 4_15
7480GARDGenetic and Rare Diseases Information Center, 2015_04
71878GOGene Ontology, 2023_05_10
8457HCPCSHealthcare Common Procedure Coding System, 2024
43627HGNCHUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, 2023_04
9077HL7V3.0HL7 Vocabulary Version 3.0, 2023_11
19432HPOHuman Phenotype Ontology, 2023_10_09
17415ICD10ICD10, 2016
105371ICD10CMInternational Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, Clinical Modification, 2024
191545ICD10PCSICD-10-PCS, 2024
20887ICD9CMInternational Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, 2014
2861ICDOInternational Classification of Disease for Oncology, 3_2
748ICPCInternational Classification of Primary Care, 1993
5055ISO3166-2International Organization for Standardization 3166-2, 2012
177072LNCLOINC, 277
41MCMMcMaster University Epidemiology Terms, 1992
332MDBCACMitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer, 2005_12
62725MDRMedical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology (MedDRA), 27_0
3559MED-RTMedication Reference Terminology, 2024_03_04
2120MEDLINEPLUSMedlinePlus Health Topics, 20221101
901MGEDMGED Ontology, 131
457042MSHMedical Subject Headings, 2024_2024_02_01
21941MTHUMLS Metathesaurus, 2024AA
11MTHCMSFRFMetathesaurus CMS Formulary Reference File, MTHCMSFRF_2020
19008MTHICD9International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, Metathesaurus additional entry terms, 2014
1633MTHMSTMetathesaurus Version of Minimal Standard Terminology Digestive Endoscopy, 2001
57707MTHSPLMetathesaurus FDA Structured Product Labels, 2024_02_24
88MVXManufacturers of Vaccines, 2024_02_12
722235NCBINCBI Taxonomy, 2023_11_01
10188NCIMTHNCIMTH
1887NPONPO: NanoParticle Ontology for Cancer Nanotechnology Research, 2011_12_08
105235OMIMOnline Mendelian Inheritance in Man, 2024_02_12
12396PDQPhysician Data Query, 2016_07_31
2039PMAPortfolio Management Application, 2010
279PNDSPerioperative Nursing Data Set, 2024
940QMRQuick Medical Reference (QMR), 1996
45821RADLEXRadLex, 4_1
219001RXNORMRxNorm Vocabulary, 20AA_240304F
363404SNOMEDCT_USUS Edition of SNOMED CT, 2024_03_01
167SOPSource of Payment Typology, 9.2
4811SPNStandard Product Nomenclature, 2003
234SRCMetathesaurus Source Terminology Names
29105UMDUMDNS: product category thesaurus, 2023
5009USPUSP Compendial Nomenclature, 2024_01_08
1688USPMGUSP Medicare Model Guidelines, 2023
61107UWDAUniversity of Washington Digital Anatomist, 1.7.3
38761VANDFVeterans Health Administration National Drug File, 2024_01_31

Overall Counts (August 2024)

ConceptsRelationships Attributes Total Number of Terms
2,696,773

23,619,364

 26,334,4837,164,803
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{multi-excerpt:name=SharedTerminologyDevelopment}Since 1997, EVS has worked with many partners to build shared content and services, so that information can be effectively exchanged, interpreted and analyzed while minimizing overall effort and cost.  Much of this content has been created and published using NCI Thesaurus and NCI Metathesaurus, as outlined below and described in more detail in the individual user profiles later, where other shared development efforts are also described.

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h2. NCI Thesaurus (NCIt)

NCI Thesaurus (NCIt) is NCI's core reference terminology. Over the last 10 years, it has also been adopted by FDA, CDISC, NCPDP and other partners as a shared standards development and coding environment, allowing participants to compare and harmonize with each other's content while taking advantage of full-text definitions, codes, and other features.

About 40,000 out of the over 90,000 current NCIt concepts have terms from both EVS and from one or more of these other sources. The chart below gives a detailed breakdown of the main areas of overlapping tagged content.  Note that some partners have used NCI terms rather than tagging their own, so these figures understate the true extent of cross-source sharing.

{color:#002060}{*}NCIt concepts with terms from tagged outside sources (11.09d: September 2011)*{color}
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{color:#002060}{*}NCIt concepts with tagged synonyms from each outside source (11.09d: September 2011)*{color}

|| NCIt Concepts || Source ||
| {align:right} 335 {align} | BIOCARTA |
| {align:right} 1,139 {align} | BRIDG |
| {align:right} 27 {align} | CADSR |
| {align:right} 919 {align} | CDC |
| {align:right} 5,633 {align} | CDISC |
| {align:right} 424 {align} | CRCH |
| {align:right} 6,368 {align} | CTCAE |
| {align:right} 4,421 {align} | CTRM |
| {align:right} 902 {align} | DCP |
| {align:right} 114 {align} | DICOM |
| {align:right} 697 {align} | DTP |
| {align:right} 15,772 {align} | FDA |
| {align:right} 125 {align} | HL7 |
| {align:right} 215 {align} | ICH |
| {align:right} 156 {align} | JAX |
| {align:right} 255 {align} | KEGG |
| {align:right} 4 {align} | NCICB |
| {align:right} 5,157 {align} | NCI-GLOSS |
| {align:right} 515 {align} | NCPDP |
| {align:right} 886 {align} | NICHD |
| {align:right} 169 {align} | PID |
| {align:right} 311 {align} | RENI |
| {align:right} 62 {align} | SEER |
| {align:right} 287 {align} | UCUM |
| {align:right} 25 {align} | ZFin |

h2. NCI Metathesaurus (NCIm)

NCI Metathesaurus (NCIm) was started in the late 1990s to gather up, translate between, and publish the many terminologies used by NCI, including some created in part or whole within NCI.  Development of NCI Thesaurus started within NCIm as NewPDQ, an effort to extend and restructure the PDQ Terminology long used to code cancer clinical trial, research and public information resources.  NCIm continues to provide a vital environment for EVS collaboration with NCI and other partners to develop, map and publish terminologies of shared interest, and responds to the requirements of a broad range of stakeholders within the cancer research and biomedical community.  

NCIt tagged content from outside sources is imported into NCIm with separate source tags. NCIt-derived sources are grouped separately below. The NCIm tags are mostly identical or very similar to those in NCIt; exceptions are CADSR, converted to NCI; HL7, converted to NCI-HL7; and CTRM, which is not imported.  

{color:#002060}{*}NCIm sources and the number of concepts to which each contributes (201105: May 2011)*{color}

|| NCIm concepts || Source Label - NCIt-derived || Source Name ||
| {align:right} 334 {align} | BioC | BioCarta online maps of molecular pathways, adapted for NCI use, 1105E |
| {align:right} 1,139 {align} | BRIDG | Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group Model, 1105E |
| {align:right} 921 {align} | CDC | U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1105E |
| {align:right} 5,636 {align} | CDISC | Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, 1105E |
| {align:right} 406 {align} | CRCH | Cancer Research Center of Hawaii Nutrition Terminology, 1105E |
| {align:right} 6,368 {align} | CTCAE | Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, 1105E |
| {align:right} 903 {align} | DCP | NCI Division of Cancer Prevention Program, 1105E |
| {align:right} 114 {align} | DICOM | Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine, 1105E |
| {align:right} 693 {align} | DTP | NCI Developmental Therapeutics Program, 1105E |
| {align:right} 15,471 {align} | FDA | U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1105E |
| {align:right} 215 {align} | ICH | International Conference on Harmonization, 1105E |
| {align:right} 156 {align} | JAX | Jackson Laboratories Mouse Terminology, adapted for NCI use, 1105E |
| {align:right} 244 {align} | KEGG | KEGG Pathway Database, 1105E |
| {align:right} 85,314 {align} | NCI | National Cancer Institute Thesaurus, 2011_05E |
| {align:right} 5,084 {align} | NCI-GLOSS | NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms, 1105E |
| {align:right} 125 {align} | NCI-HL7 | NCI Health Level 7, 1105E |
| {align:right} 514 {align} | NCPDP | National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, 1105E |
| {align:right} 715 {align} | NICHD | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1105E |
| {align:right} 169 {align} | PID | National Cancer Institute Nature Pathway Interaction Database, 1105E |
| {align:right} 310 {align} | RENI | Registry Nomenclature Information System, 1105E |
| {align:right} 287 {align} | UCUM | Unified Code for Units of Measure, 1105E |
| {align:right} 25 {align} | ZFIN | Zebrafish Model Organism Database, 1105E |
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|| NCIm concepts || Source Label - Other || Source Name ||
| {align:right} 15,870 {align} | AOD | Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus, 2000 |
| {align:right} 278 {align} | AOT | Authorized Osteopathic Thesaurus, 2003 |
| {align:right} 13,255 {align} | CBO | Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology, 2011_02 |
| {align:right} 1,104 {align} | CCS | Clinical Classifications Software, 2005 |
| {align:right} 3,073 {align} | COSTAR | COSTAR, 1989-1995 |
| {align:right} 16,572 {align} | CSP | CRISP Thesaurus, 2006 |
| {align:right} 3,836 {align} | CST | COSTART, 1995 |
| {align:right} 345 {align} | CTEP | Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, 2004 |
| {align:right} 7,278 {align} | DXP | DXplain, 1994 |
| {align:right} 77,923 {align} | FMA | Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology, 2_0 |
| {align:right} 54,439 {align} | GO | Gene Ontology, 2010_04_01 |
| {align:right} 5,602 {align} | HCPCS | Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, 2010 |
| {align:right} 7,483 {align} | HL7V3.0 | HL7 Vocabulary Version 3.0, 2006_05 |
| {align:right} 29,335 {align} | HUGO | HUGO Gene Nomenclature, 2010_05 |
| {align:right} 11,532 {align} | ICD10 | ICD10, 1998 |
| {align:right} 1,004 {align} | ICD10AE | ICD10, American English Equivalents, 1998 |
| {align:right} 97,631 {align} | ICD10CM | International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, Clinical Modification, 2010_03 |
| {align:right} 181,116 {align} | ICD10PCS | ICD-10-PCS, 2009 |
| {align:right} 20,779 {align} | ICD9CM | International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, 2011 |
| {align:right} 2,466 {align} | ICDO | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, 3rd Edition, 2000 |
| {align:right} 748 {align} | ICPC | International Classification of Primary Care, 1993 |
| {align:right} 37,923 {align} | ICPC2ICD10ENG | ICPC2 - ICD10 Thesaurus, 200412 |
| {align:right} 80,206 {align} | LNC | Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes, 232 |
| {align:right} 41 {align} | MCM | McMaster University Epidemiology Terms, 1992 |
| {align:right} 331 {align} | MDBCAC | Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer, 2005_12 |
| {align:right} 47,210 {align} | MDR | Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology, 14.0 |
| {align:right} 1,897 {align} | MEDLINEPLUS | MedlinePlus Health Topics, 20080614 |
| {align:right} 900 {align} | MGED | MGED Ontology, 131 |
| {align:right} 310,485 {align} | MSH | Medical Subject Headings, 2011_2010_08_30 |
| {align:right} 85,138 {align} | MTH | UMLS Metathesaurus, 2010AB |
| {align:right} 19,880 {align} | MTHFDA | Metathesaurus FDA National Drug Code Directory, 2010_08_02 |
| {align:right} 337 {align} | MTHHH | Metathesaurus HCPCS Hierarchical Terms, 2010 |
| {align:right} 16,081 {align} | MTHICD9 | International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, Metathesaurus additional entry terms, 2011 |
| {align:right} 94 {align} | MTHICPC2ICD107B | ICPC2 - ICD10 Thesaurus, 7-bit Equivalents, 0412 |
| {align:right} 76 {align} | MTHICPC2ICD10AE | ICPC2 - ICD10 Thesaurus, American English Equivalents, 0412 |
| {align:right} 1,633 {align} | MTHMST | Metathesaurus Version of Minimal Standard Terminology Digestive Endoscopy, 2001 |
| {align:right} 12,969 {align} | MTHSPL | Metathesaurus FDA Structured Product Labels, 2010_08_27 |
| {align:right} 478,187 {align} | NCBI | NCBI Taxonomy, 2010_04_29 |
| {align:right} 135 {align} | NCIMTH | NCI Metathesaurus |
| {align:right} 38,863 {align} | NDFRT | National Drug File, 2010_09_07 |
| {align:right} 1,781 {align} | NPO | NPO: NanoParticle Ontology for Cancer Nanotechnology Research, 2010_10_31 |
| {align:right} 63,924 {align} | OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, 2010_04_08 |
| {align:right} 9,869 {align} | PDQ | Physician Data Query, 2010_08_06 |
| {align:right} 2,041 {align} | PMA | Portfolio Management Application, 2010 |
| {align:right} 268 {align} | PNDS | Perioperative Nursing Data Set, 2nd edition, 2002 |
| {align:right} 940 {align} | QMR | Quick Medical Reference (QMR), 1996 |
| {align:right} 30,033 {align} | RADLEX | RadLex, 3_33 |
| {align:right} 227,498 {align} | RXNORM | RxNorm Vocabulary, 10AA_100907F |
| {align:right} 281,843 {align} | SNOMEDCT | SNOMED Clinical Terms |
| {align:right} 4,808 {align} | SPN | Standard Product Nomenclature, 2003 |
| {align:right} 156 {align} | SRC | Metathesaurus Source Terminology Names |
| {align:right} 13,788 {align} | UMD | UMDNS: product category thesaurus, 2010 |
| {align:right} 1,765 {align} | USPMG | USP Model Guidelines, 2004 |
| {align:right} 61,191 {align} | UWDA | University of Washington Digital Anatomist, 1.7.3 |
| {align:right} 26,546 {align} | VANDF | Veterans Health Administration National Drug File, 2010_07_26 |

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