Sample features of StageCRAFT

StageCRAFT is an award-winning software tool, created to assist the radiologist in the process of staging common malignancies. Oncologists and other professional groups have also found this software useful. Its purpose is to reduce the need to refer to books or rely on memory, thus reducing potential for error or inconsistency. In addition it can speed up the process of reporting CT, MRI and PETCT studies.

StageCRAFT has already been downloaded for use in over 50 countries worldwide

StageCRAFT uses the latest version (7) of the internationally recognised TNM system. Simple checkbox-clicking gives an instantaneous TNM stage and group stage. (The TNM system is developed by the Union for International Cancer Control.)

The current version of StageCRAFT can be used for the following malignancies:

• Lung
• Oesophagus
• Endometrium
• Rectum
• Cervix
• Lymphoma
• Renal
• Bladder
• Prostate

In addition there are helpful anatomic diagrams including:

• Lymph node maps
• Liver segmentation
• In depth explanation & illustration of cervical lymph node “levels”
• In depth explanation & illustration of thoracic lymph node “stations”

Other features include:

• Mirels – a “ready reckoner” for assessing the risk of pathological fracture in a bone metastasis
• A list of “normal” lymph node sizes
• The Fleischner Society guidelines (2005) for the follow-up of lung nodules
• The Bosniak classification of cystic renal masses
• Useful website hyperlinks
• A tool for calculating the response to treatment using the current RECIST (v1.1) criteria
• A calculator to assess the degree of contrast enhancement and washout of adrenal lesions on CT

StageCRAFT was WINNER of the Health Enterprise East 2010 Innovations Award for software & ICT