Obituary: Peter Knight McCowan

Obituary: Peter Laurberg

Peter Laurberg, Denmark, member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, deceased unexpectedly on 20 June 2016. When walking by foot in Tiflis, Georgia together with his wife shortly after his 71st birthday, he was involved into a car accident. Whereas his wife survived, Peter Laurberg died. Peter Laurberg was worldwide one of the leading thyroidologi...

obituary: peter laurberg

Obituary - In Memoriam: Prof. Peter Hausen

We were deeply saddened by the news that our scientific mentor, Prof. Peter Hausen, passed away on May 28th of this year. Peter Hausen began his scientific career as a Ph.D. student with Werner Schäfer at the former Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) for Virology in Tübingen, completing his thesis on the molecular biology of the mouse encophalomyelitis virus in 1961. After a stay at the Weizmann Instit...

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McCowan Automated Collection of Cancer Stage Data

Cancer staging provides a basis for planning clinical management, but also allows for meaningful analysis of cancer outcomes and evaluation of cancer care services. Despite this, stage data in cancer registries is often incomplete, inaccurate or simply not collected. This article describes a prototype software system (Cancer Stage Interpretation System, CSIS) which automatically extracts cancer...