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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.
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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
- Data Quality, Analysis, and Interpretation Research
- Data Quality
- Geospatial Data, Methods, and Tools
- Population Changes, Migration, and Mobility
- Virtual Tissue Repository Pilot
Highlights
- CISNET Study Estimates that Declines in Smoking Prevented Nearly 800,000 Deaths during the period 1975-2000
- Predicting US- and State-Level Cancer Counts for the Current Calendar Year
[Part I] [Part II] - Small Area Estimates for Cancer Screening and Risk Factors Added to State Cancer Profiles
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
- Statistical Methods and Software
- Modeling the Impact of Cancer Control Interventions: the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET)
- Statistical Genetics
- Statistical Methods Grant Portfolio
- Survey Methods
- Innovative tools and approaches for the analysis, reporting, visualization and interpretation of cancer surveillance data
- Statistical Methods and Software
- Web tools for reporting and visualizing data (e.g. SEER*Explorer)
- Novel methods and algorithms to develop, evaluate, and improve cancer progress measures and indicators spanning the cancer continuum, such as
- New analytic methods for the harmonization, enhancement, and validation of novel sources of data and variables to expand the utility of cancer surveillance data
- Multiple Imputation to enhance newly collected data (e.g. biomarkers)
- Methods to examine the biases and population representativeness
- Funding opportunities in cancer surveillance
Highlights
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