Geospatial Approaches to Cancer Control and Population Sciences.
Cancer incidence and mortality display strong geographic patterns worldwide and in the United States (1, 2). The environment where individuals live, work, and play is increasingly being recognized as important across the cancer control continuum, including the risk of cancer development, detection, diagnosis, treatment, mortality, and survivorship (3-5). At the same time, emergent technological capacity in geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping, along with increasing sophistication in applied spatial methods, has resulted in a growing research community developing and applying geospatial approaches in health research (5). Through collaborative, transdisciplinary efforts, and continued data collection efforts, there is great potential to apply these emerging geospatial approaches to various aspects of cancer prevention and control to inform etiology and target interventions and implementation of efficacious risk-reducing strategies.Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 26(4); 472-5. ©2017 AACRSee all the articles in thisCEBP Focussection, "Geospatial Approaches to Cancer Control and Population Sciences."
Department of Epidemiology, College for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. schootm@slu.edu.|Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Mario
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Schootman
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California.|Department of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology), Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California.|Stanford Cancer Institute, Palo Alto, California.
Scarlett Lin
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Gomez
Department of Geography, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.|Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kevin A
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Henry
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Electra D
ED
Paskett
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland.
Gary L
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Ellison
Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland.
April
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Oh
Center for Global Health, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland.
Stephen H
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Taplin
Surveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland.
Zaria
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Tatalovich
Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland.
David A
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Berrigan
D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D003710:Demography / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D040362:Geographic Information Systems / Q000639:trends*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors