Physician Data Query

{{Short description|Cancer database}} {{More footnotes needed|date=July 2025}} thumb|upright|A woman accessing the PDQ database with an early laptop in 1987 '''Physician Data Query''' ('''PDQ''') is the US National Cancer Institute's (NCI) comprehensive cancer database.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Manrow|first1=Richard E.|last2=Beckwith|first2=Margaret|last3=Johnson|first3=Lenora E.|date=2014-03-01|title=NCI's Physician Data Query (PDQ®) cancer information summaries: history, editorial processes, influence, and reach|journal=Journal of Cancer Education|volume=29|issue=1|pages=198–205|doi=10.1007/s13187-013-0536-3|issn=1543-0154|pmid=23996204|s2cid=14628320}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=January 1980|title=PDQ® - NCI's Comprehensive Database|url=https://www.cancer.gov/publications/pdq|access-date=2021-05-29|website=www.cancer.gov|publisher=National Cancer Institute|language=en}}</ref>

==Database== It contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care, and complementary and alternative medicine; a registry of more than 6,000 open and 17,000 closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and a directory of professionals who provide genetics services.

PDQ makes available two data resources. The [http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary PDQ NCI Cancer Terms Database] is a resource of cancer-related terms, curated by a multidisciplinary panel of reviewers, that is released monthly. The [http://www.cancer.gov/drugdictionary NCI Drug Dictionary] is a structured list of technical definitions and synonyms for drugs/agents used to treat patients with cancer or conditions related to cancer.

The NCI also makes a browse-able version of the Cancer Terms database available as part of the [https://evsexplore.semantics.cancer.gov/evsexplore/welcome?terminology=pdq NCI Terminology Browser]

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==External links== *[https://www.cancer.gov/publications/pdq Physician Data Query website] Retrieved 27 November 2018.

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