OORO Terminology Files

The Operational Ontology for Radiation Oncology (OORO) terminology is a set of terms used to support the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Big Data Subcommittee (BDSC) of the Data Sciences Committee (DSC) efforts to identify essential items, value sets and interrelationships needed for the majority of clinical practice and research applications in radiation oncology. Its aim is to coalesce technical efforts in constructing interoperable systems that simplify gathering information as part of routine practice.

For more information, visit: American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Big Data Subcommittee (BDSC) of the Data Sciences Committee (DSC) Operational Ontology for Radiation Oncology (OORO) . Please Note: OORO changed their name in 2023 to Operational Ontology for Oncology (O3), but will remain OORO in the NCIt.

Files available for download:

The OORO Prostate Cancer Terminology data can be downloaded at this location: OORO Prostate Cancer Terminology.

OORO Prostate Cancer Terminology Spreadsheet column headers:

Spreadsheet Column	Content Description
NCIt Code of Table	The NCIt Concept Code that is associated with the table/subset name.
OORO Table PT	The name of the subset.
NCIt Concept Code	A unique, machine readable string that begins with a "C" and is followed by a series of digits; each concept in the NCIt has one concept code.
NCIt PT	The preferred term chosen by NCIt staff; the most unambiguous term for a particular concept. Each concept has one NCIt PT.
NCIt SY	Synonymous terms to the preferred term chosen by NCIt staff.
NCIt Definition	The meaning of a concept as defined by NCIt.
OORO PT	The preferred term chosen by the OORO working group members.
OORO SY	A synonymous term chosen by the OORO working group members.
OORO Definition	The meaning of the concept as defined by the OORO working group members.
Row	The identifier that will sort the rows into projects and tables with permissible values beneath the shaded variable rows.

Process

The database is reconciled the last Monday of every month; this is the database from which a production version is generated to correspond to the files posted on the ftp site. The files will be posted during the following two weeks. Additional terms may be suggested at the Term Suggestion page; please indicate OORO Prostate Cancer Terminology as the project.

Also included are the following additional files:

Changes.txt (A text file of changes between the most recent and the current version of the Prostate Cancer Terminology. For each change record, the Changes.txt contains a complete row of tab delimited data with the same data elements as described above. An "A" will precede any new concept additions, a "C" will precede any modification to existing concepts, and a "D" will precede any concepts that have been deleted.)
Version.txt (A text file that contains the version of NCI Thesaurus that corresponds to the current spreadsheet data. The database is reconciled the last Monday of every month. The files will be posted during the following two weeks. The version appears as YR.MOweek. An example is 20.02d which corresponds to the year 2020, the month of February, and the "d" refers to the fourth Monday of the month.)