Abstract IA25: Using cancer registry data for geospatial and disparity research

This talk will provide an overview on how to use cancer registry data in geospatial analysis. Our national cancer surveillance system comprises a set of international data collection standards overseen by individual state registries. While there are highly detailed geospatial data available from each state registry, not all registries release these data and each have separate data release procedures, regulations, and cost. This presentation will discuss how the cancer surveillance community geocodes cancer incidence data and creates geocoded data quality measures. This presentation will also detail the current area-based social measures available to researchers in the national CiNA (Cancer in North America) cancer incidence dataset. Release procedures and limitations of the data will be described, and the move towards a national geographic dataset for cancer incidence data will be presented.

Citation Format: Recinda Sherman. Using cancer registry data for geospatial and disparity research [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2019 Sep 20-23; San Francisco, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020;29(6 Suppl_2):Abstract nr IA25.