{ "model": { "rank": 5313, "code": "thing-q208414", "model_id": "vr.tr.lymphoma", "name": "lymphoma", "purpose": "Let an agent explain lymphoma in general terms and point to specialist care, reliable information and support organisations, without diagnosis or treatment advice.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q208414/", "tier": 2, "score": 68, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Epstein-Barr virus related lymphoma", "AIDS-related lymphoma", "AIDS-related immunoblastic lymphoma", "cecum lymphoma", "reticulosarcoma involving intrapelvic lymph nodes", "pediatric lymphoma", "retroperitoneal lymphoma", "gastrointestinal lymphoma", "paranasal sinus lymphoma", "tracheal lymphoma", "ovarian lymphoma", "thymus lymphoma", "heart lymphoma", "chest wall lymphoma", "mediastinal malignant lymphoma", "esophagus lymphoma", "cutaneous B-cell lymphoma", "nasal cavity lymphoma", "extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type", "spinal cord lymphoma", "central nervous system lymphoma", "post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder", "T-cell childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia", "secondary cardiac lymphoma", "mediastinal gray zone lymphoma", "ureteral lymphoma", "aggressive primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma", "indolent primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma", "cerebral lymphoma", "T-cell lymphoma", "B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia", "non-Hodgkin lymphoma", "Lymphoma in animals", "anus lymphoma", "rectum lymphoma", "methotrexate-associated lymphoproliferation", "adult lymphoma", "ALPS-associated lymphoma", "localized lymphoma", "Hodgkin lymphoma" ], "aliasCount": 110, "merged": 110, "knownIn": 68, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q208414", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208414", "license": "CC0 1.0" } 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Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphomas, with many subtypes; treatment and outlook vary widely and are determined by specialist teams.", "what_it_is_for": "A health topic requiring accurate information and support.", "affordances": [ "explain lymphoma in general terms", "find reliable cancer information", "find patient and carer support", "recognise when to seek medical advice" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Cancer of lymphocytes", "Many subtypes", "Managed by haematology and oncology teams", "Outlook varies widely" ], "appearance": "Signs can include painless swollen lymph nodes, fever, night sweats and weight loss; diagnosis needs medical tests.", "visual_identification": [ "Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin types", "Diagnosed by biopsy", "Leukaemia is a related blood cancer" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "Hodgkin lymphoma", "non-Hodgkin lymphomas", "paediatric lymphomas", "virus-associated lymphomas" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "lymphatic system cancer", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "affects", "target": "lymphocyte", "why": "cell" }, { "relation": "is treated by", "target": "haematology and oncology", "why": "specialties" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "leukaemia", "why": "related cancer" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "ICD-11", "value_or_pattern": "multiple codes in chapter 02 (neoplasms)", "note": "lymphoid neoplasms" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "WHO classification of haematolymphoid tumours", "National cancer referral guidelines" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Agents diagnosing or predicting outcomes", "Unproven cure claims", "Distressing or insensitive framing" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "care", "name": "Care", "description": "Seeing a doctor.", "rationale": "Clinicians diagnose.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptoms", "name": "Symptoms", "description": "When to seek advice.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptoms-finding", "name": "Symptoms", "description": "Seeking advice.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are there persistent symptoms that should be checked by a doctor?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How can an appointment be made?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnosis", "name": "Diagnosis", "description": "No self-diagnosis.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnosis-finding", "name": "Diagnosis", "description": "Diagnosis limit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the user asking the agent to diagnose or predict their outcome?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How should they discuss it with their specialist team?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "information", "name": "Information", "description": "Reliable sources.", "rationale": "Information must be reliable.", "layers": [ { "id": "types", "name": "Types", "description": "General overview.", "findings": [ { "id": "types-finding", "name": "Types", "description": "Types.", "questions": [ { "text": "What types of lymphoma do reliable cancer organisations describe?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "When were the pages reviewed?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claims", "name": "Claims", "description": "Unproven treatments.", "findings": [ { "id": "claims-finding", "name": "Claims", "description": "Unproven claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a treatment claim unproven or a scam?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "What do cancer charities say about it?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "support", "name": "Support", "description": "Patients and carers.", "rationale": "Support matters.", "layers": [ { "id": "organisations", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Charities.", "findings": [ { "id": "organisations-finding", "name": "Organisations", "description": "Support organisations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which lymphoma or blood cancer charities offer support here?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Do they have helplines?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "emotional", "name": "Emotional", "description": "Coping.", "findings": [ { "id": "emotional-finding", "name": "Emotional", "description": "Emotional support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the person distressed or in crisis?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Which support or crisis service can help?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "practical", "name": "Practical", "description": "Daily life.", "rationale": "Practical help exists.", "layers": [ { "id": "work", "name": "Work", "description": "Rights.", "findings": [ { "id": "work-finding", "name": "Work", "description": "Work rights.", "questions": [ { "text": "What employment rights apply to people with cancer here?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Who can advise?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "trials", "name": "Trials", "description": "Clinical trials.", "findings": [ { "id": "trials-finding", "name": "Trials", "description": "Clinical trials.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where can official clinical trial registries be searched?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Should the specialist team be consulted first?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should subtypes be separate entries?", "How should support organisations be localised?", "How should alias lists be curated?" ], "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 lymphoma, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain lymphoma in general terms and point to specialist care, reliable information and support organisations, without diagnosis or treatment 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: Epstein-Barr virus related lymphoma, AIDS-related lymphoma, AIDS-related immunoblastic lymphoma, cecum lymphoma, reticulosarcoma involving intrapelvic lymph nodes, pediatric lymphoma, retroperitoneal lymphoma, gastrointestinal lymphoma, paranasal sinus lymphoma, tracheal lymphoma, ovarian lymphoma, thymus lymphoma.", "110 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 68 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 lymphoma, 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": [ "Epstein-Barr virus related lymphoma", "AIDS-related lymphoma", "AIDS-related immunoblastic lymphoma", "cecum lymphoma", "reticulosarcoma involving intrapelvic lymph nodes", "pediatric lymphoma", "retroperitoneal lymphoma", "gastrointestinal lymphoma", "paranasal sinus lymphoma", "tracheal lymphoma", "ovarian lymphoma", "thymus lymphoma" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 68 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 110 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 lymphoma from another, and a lymphoma 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a lymphoma, 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a lymphoma, 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a lymphoma 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma?", "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 lymphoma?", "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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a lymphoma, 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma 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 lymphoma is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a lymphoma, 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 lymphoma, 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 lymphoma 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 } } } }