Oncology Cases | Derived Healthcare Claims Data

The Oncology Cases Asset is a derived data product from Kythera Labs that compiles patient-level transaction details of cancer diagnostic and treatment information, including surgical, radiation, and medical oncology—built using Kythera Labs' remastered claims data, data science, statistical modeling, and imputation logic to reduce raw claim data missingness and errors and deliver more accurate insights faster.

**Use Cases**
An extension of Kythera Labs Chronic Conditions Asset, Oncology Cases accelerates research and analysis of cancer-related healthcare and therapies:
- Identify Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and top prescribing physicians.
- Identify trends in cancer-related healthcare consumption based on patient Zip5.
- Understand diagnosis, referral, and treatment trends for specific types of cancer in my market.
- Study Health Economic and Outcomes Research (HEOR) for my therapy and competitive therapies.

**Detailed Insights**
Oncology Cases identifies oncology-related ICD-10 diagnoses (as defined by the CDC), then labels cases by cancer description (e.g., lung, brain or prostate) and cancer behavior (e.g., benign, malignant, primary and secondary metastasis, or in situ). Identified cases include details about:
- The patient, treating organization, and treating physician.
- Diagnostic events, referral sources, and comorbidities at the time of each treatment.
- The payer, oncology-related treatments received by each patient and non-oncology comorbidities.

**Data Sources**
- Kythera Labs curated, unified, and remastered claims source data from disparate vendor feeds that are de-identified, conformed, unified, enriched, and regularly updated.
- Kythera Labs curated and maintained data directories.
- Publicly available data directories.