Branches of the Surveillance Research Program

Listed below are the three branches that, along with the Office of the Associate Director, comprise the Surveillance Research Program. Select a branch below to learn more about its role within SRP, its staff members, and their areas of expertise.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide essential information for tracking the nation’s progress against cancer and lead the analysis and interpretation of patterns and trends in population-based cancer surveillance data. We provide national leadership to the surveillance community in cancer data collection, quality improvement, education, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of cancer burden.

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Areas of Research

Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide optimal statistical, epidemiologic, and decision-analytic modeling and methods for the collection, analysis, reporting, and interpretation of cancer epidemiological surveillance data. By supporting the National Cancer Institute and the broader cancer control research community, we aim to deliver rigorous measures related to cancer outcomes, risk and behavioral factors, spatial and temporal trends, genetic influences, and health care delivery. These efforts are essential to measuring progress in reducing the cancer burden in the United States.

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Areas of Research

Mission Statement

Our mission is to advance precision cancer surveillance through the application of informatics tools, methods, and architectures. Research areas of focus for the branch include but are not limited to:

  • innovative methods and approaches for acquiring, abstracting, analyzing, sharing, and visualizing data for cancer surveillance,
  • automated and cost effective methods for data capture and integration, including abstraction facilitated with natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning,
  • acquisition, linkage, and integration of traditional cancer registry data with new data sources to expand and enhance the scope of cancer surveillance research across the cancer continuum and fuel population-level precision oncology research, and
  • enhancements of SEER Data Management System (SEER*DMS).

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Current Projects

  • Data Acquisitions and Linkages
  • Data Quality Studies (in conjunction with DQAIB)
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • NCI-DOE Pilot 3: Enhancing Methods for Monitoring Population Health
  • Pharmacy Informatics
  • SEER*DMS Enhancements