Patent ID: 8275552

Claim:
A method for determining a toxicity rating of a treatment program, the method comprising: identifying a toxicity grading system appropriate for the treatment program, wherein the toxicity grading system ranks the severity of adverse events related to a treatment program; recording significant adverse events occurring during an administration of the treatment program within a first predetermined period of time and recording significant adverse events occurring during the administration of the treatment program within a second predetermined period of time, wherein a significant adverse event is an adverse event ranked by the toxicity grading system as being severe or life-threatening and wherein the second predetermined period of time is after the first predetermined period of time; determining an acute toxicity domain of the treatment program by calculating a median number of significant adverse events occurring during the first predetermined period of time; determining an adverse late effects domain by calculating a median number of significant adverse events occurring during the second predetermined period of time; determining the toxicity rating of the treatment program from a sum of the acute toxicity domain and the adverse late effects domain; and comparing the toxicity rating of the treatment program with a toxicity rating of other treatment programs to determine a favorable treatment option for a patient; wherein each of the above method steps are performed according to an automated process using software tools.