Exploiting the ICD Catalogue for Teaching German Oncological Terminology to Large Language Models

Introduction: Medical coding of free-text diagnoses is essential for structured documentation and cancer registry reporting. In Germany, both ICD-10-GM and ICD-O-3 codes are required for documenting tumor diagnoses. Despite advances in natural language processing, large language models (LLMs) still [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]