The Help Defeat Cancer project ran on
World Community Grid
World Community Grid (WCG) is an effort to create the world's largest volunteer computing platform to tackle scientific research that benefits humanity. Launched on November 16, 2004, with proprietary Grid MP client from United Devices and addin ...
from July 20, 2006 to April 2007.
It sought to improve the ability of
medical professionals
A health professional, healthcare professional, or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated HCW) is a provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. The field includes those who work as a nurse, physician (su ...
to determine the best treatment options for patients with
cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...
s of the
breast
The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of a primate's torso. Both females and males develop breasts from the same embryological tissues.
In females, it serves as the mammary gland, which produces and sec ...
,
head, or neck. The project worked by identifying visual patterns in large numbers of
tissue microarray
Tissue microarrays (also TMAs) consist of paraffin blocks in which up to 1000 separate tissue cores are assembled in array fashion to allow multiplex histological analysis.
History
The major limitations in molecular clinical analysis of tiss ...
s taken from archived
tissue samples. By
correlating the pattern data with information about treatment and patient outcome, the results of this project could help provide better targeted
treatment options.
References
External links
World Community Grid - Research - Help Defeat Cancer
{{BOINC projects
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects
Volunteer computing projects
Cancer research