Abstract: Assistance is provided in an oncology workflow. A tool or assistance link is provided as part of the workflow or display of task information. Task information for other patients may assist the medical professional in current task decisions. For example, the target dose, warning dose, fraction dose and number of fractions for patients with tumors at a same site (e.g., brain), with a similar size (e.g., 1 cm), a similar stage (e.g., stage 2), and/or other diagnostic information may be useful in a prescription generation task. While completing the task, the user activates the tool or assistant to determine what has been done in similar circumstances. The tool or assistances link acts as colleague advice for determining a current treatment.