NCI CTEP Simplified Disease Classification Terminology

**Semantic type:** Intellectual Product

**Definition:** The NCI Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) Simplified Disease Classification (SDC), a three level hierarchy of Category, Sub-Category, and coding Term intended to provide an intuitive classification of neoplastic diseases to meet the needs of CTEP while still allowing reporting based on the Medical Dictionary for Drug Regulatory Reporting (MedDRA) terminology. All CTEP SDC Terms are matched to NCIt concepts, which are linked to SDC Categories and Sub-Categories through Concept_In_Subset association relationships.

**Synonyms:** - NCI CTEP SDC Terminology