{ "model": { "rank": 4455, "code": "thing-q180614", "model_id": "vr.tr.melanoma", "name": "melanoma", "purpose": "Let an agent give accurate general information on melanoma, encourage skin checks and prompt assessment of changing moles, explain diagnosis and treatment in general terms, and point to specialist care and support without individual medical advice.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q180614/", "tier": 2, "score": 75, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "metastatic melanoma", "cutaneous malignant melanoma", "lentigo maligna", "scrotum melanoma", "spinal cord melanoma", "ocular melanoma", "malignant spindle cell melanoma", "epithelioid cell melanoma", "familial melanoma", "melanomatosis", "gallbladder melanoma", "skin melanoma", "extracutaneous melanoma", "regressing malignant melanoma", "recurrent 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by ultraviolet exposure, fair skin and family history; melanoma is detected by skin checks and biopsy and treated with surgery and, for advanced disease, immunotherapy and targeted therapies.", "what_it_is_for": "A cancer requiring early detection and specialist treatment.", "affordances": [ "explain warning signs and prevention", "describe types and stages in general terms", "explain treatment pathways", "find specialist care and support" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Melanocyte origin", "High metastatic potential", "UV-related risk", "Detectable by skin checks" ], "appearance": "Often a new or changing mole or pigmented lesion; sometimes non-pigmented.", "visual_identification": [ "Asymmetry, irregular border, colour variation, diameter and evolution", "Skin, eye or mucosal sites", "Most moles are benign" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "cutaneous melanoma", "lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma", "ocular melanoma", "mucosal melanoma", "metastatic melanoma" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "skin cancer", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "cell type cancer", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is treated by", "target": "health care", "why": "services" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "nail disease", "why": "subungual melanoma" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Dermatology and oncology clinical guidelines", "Sun protection public health guidance", "Sunbed regulations" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Delayed assessment of changing moles", "Agents diagnosing from descriptions or images", "Unproven treatments" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "detect", "name": "Detect", "description": "Warning signs.", "rationale": "Early detection.", "layers": [ { "id": "changes", "name": "Changes", "description": "Changing moles.", "findings": [ { "id": "changes-finding", "name": "Changes", "description": "Changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has a mole or lesion changed in size, shape, colour or symptoms, or is a new one growing?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Should the person see a doctor promptly for assessment rather than rely on a description or image?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "checks", "name": "Checks", "description": "Skin checks.", "findings": [ { "id": "checks-finding", "name": "Checks", "description": "Skin checks.", "questions": [ { "text": "How should skin self-checks be done, and who should have regular professional checks, according to guidance?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sites are easily missed, such as nails and eyes?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "The disease.", "rationale": "General information.", "layers": [ { "id": "types", "name": "Types", "description": "Types and stages.", "findings": [ { "id": "types-finding", "name": "Types", "description": "Types.", "questions": [ { "text": "What type and stage is being discussed, in general terms?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the user asking about their own diagnosis or results?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "risk", "name": "Risk", "description": "Risk factors and prevention.", "findings": [ { "id": "risk-finding", "name": "Risk", "description": "Risk.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do health authorities say about UV exposure, sunbeds, skin type and family history?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sun protection measures are recommended?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "treatment", "name": "Treatment", "description": "Care pathway.", "rationale": "Specialist care.", "layers": [ { "id": "pathway", "name": "Pathway", "description": "Diagnosis and treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "pathway-finding", "name": "Pathway", "description": "Pathway.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is melanoma diagnosed and treated, according to guidelines, in general terms, including immunotherapy for advanced disease?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which questions should be asked of the oncology team?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "trials", "name": "Trials", "description": "Clinical trials.", "findings": [ { "id": "trials-finding", "name": "Trials", "description": "Trials.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which trials are recruiting, according to registries?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How can a patient discuss trials with their team?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "support", "name": "Support", "description": "Living with it.", "rationale": "Support helps.", "layers": [ { "id": "orgs", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Patient groups.", "findings": [ { "id": "orgs-finding", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Patient groups.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which patient organisations support people with melanoma here?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which services do they offer?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "followup", "name": "Follow-up", "description": "After treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "followup-finding", "name": "Follow-up", "description": "Follow-up.", "questions": [ { "text": "What follow-up and survivorship care is recommended?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How can carers be supported?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should each melanoma type be a separate entry?", "How should guidelines be linked?", "How should support organisations be localised?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a melanoma, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent give accurate general information on melanoma, encourage skin checks and prompt assessment of changing moles, explain diagnosis and treatment in general terms, and point to specialist care and support without individual medical advice.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: metastatic melanoma, cutaneous malignant melanoma, lentigo maligna, scrotum melanoma, spinal cord melanoma, ocular melanoma, malignant spindle cell melanoma, epithelioid cell melanoma, familial melanoma, melanomatosis, gallbladder melanoma, skin melanoma.", "31 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a melanoma, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "metastatic melanoma", "cutaneous malignant melanoma", "lentigo maligna", "scrotum melanoma", "spinal cord melanoma", "ocular melanoma", "malignant spindle cell melanoma", "epithelioid cell melanoma", "familial melanoma", "melanomatosis", "gallbladder melanoma", "skin melanoma" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 31 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one melanoma from another, and a melanoma from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a melanoma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a melanoma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a melanoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a melanoma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a melanoma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a melanoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a melanoma sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a melanoma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a melanoma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a melanoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a melanoma from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a melanoma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a melanoma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a melanoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a melanoma passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a melanoma between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a melanoma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a melanoma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a melanoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a melanoma, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a melanoma is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a melanoma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a melanoma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a melanoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What melanoma is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of melanoma are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is melanoma operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of melanoma and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of melanoma?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as melanoma?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a melanoma came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a melanoma and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a melanoma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a melanoma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a melanoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a melanoma is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a melanoma, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a melanoma, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a melanoma is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }