CHOICE POINTS--BREAST CANCER TREATMENT CD ROM

描述：大约每8名女性中就有1人会在一生中罹患乳腺癌，预计1998年将有178,700例新病例(美国癌症学会，1998年)。最近乳房X光检查的改进和扩大的早期检测努力增加了接受乳腺癌诊断的妇女人数。随着定期、重复的乳房X光检查的增加，被诊断为早期癌症的女性数量和最广泛的治疗选择将会增加。这个第一阶段的SBIR项目将产生一个原型CD-ROM决策支持系统，用于门诊环境中，帮助被诊断为乳腺癌的妇女参与治疗决策。在第一阶段，我们将1)确定帮助妇女做出治疗决定的互动方法；2)制作和测试互动电子故事板，并在确诊为乳腺癌的妇女中测试这些决策方法；3)制作和测试选定概念和视觉方法的原型电子版本，在已确诊为乳腺癌的妇女中进行测试；4)在最近确诊的妇女和过去一年内完成治疗的妇女中测试原型CD-ROM材料。

DESCRIPTION: Breast cancer will strike approximately one in eight women over their life span, with 178,700 new cases anticipated in 1998 (ACS, 1998). Recent improvements in mammography and expanded early detection efforts have increased the number of women receiving breast cancer diagnoses. As regular, repeated mammography screening increases, the number of women diagnosed with early-stage cancers and the widest range of treatment options will rise. This Phase I SBIR project will result in a prototype CD-ROM decision support system to be used in an outpatient setting to assist women diagnosed with breast cancer participate in the treatment decision. In Phase I we will 1) Identify interactive approaches to assist women with treatment decisions; 2) Produce and test interactive electronic storyboards and test these decision-making approaches with women who are diagnosed with breast cancer; 3) Produce and test prototype electronic versions of the selected conceptual and visual approach with women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and 4) Test the prototype CD-ROM materials with women who are recently diagnosed and with women who have completed treatment within the past year.