griffithlab / civic-client

Web client for CIViC: Clinical Interpretations of Variants in Cancer
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Allow multiple DOID terms for single evidence items #943

Open obigriffith opened 6 years ago

obigriffith commented 6 years ago

Occasionally an evidence item (e.g., describing a clinical study) determines a clinical relevance for a variant to multiple cancer subtypes. While these can be bucketed under some generic parent term (e.g., 'cancer') this loses some potential important detail. Another solution is to break into multiple evidence items but this creates a large curation burden. It has been requested to allow entry of multiple disease (DOID) terms for the single evidence item.

arpaddanos commented 6 years ago

Another angle on this is the generation of more complex disease entities such as Melanoma Brain Metastasis or treatment contexts such as Neoadjuvant Breast Cancer.

arpaddanos commented 6 years ago

Seems related to #893