Communicating Georeferenced Statistics

• State Cancer Profiles
• Cancer Mortality Maps

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State Cancer Profiles

The State Cancer Profiles website brings together data collected from public health surveillance systems in order to characterize the cancer burden in a standardized manner. It is hoped that health planners, policy makers and cancer information providers will be be able to use these descriptive cancer statistics to prioritize investements in cancer control.

• Goal: Focus cancer control efforts on places and persons who can most benefit.
• Audience: Health planners, policy makers, and advocates.
• Approach: Use interactive data visualization tools to explore the U.S. cancer burden.

Example: Linked Micromap Plots (LMPlots) go from Paper to the Web

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B. Cancer Mortality Maps

The Cancer Mortality Maps website provides dynamically generated maps for the time period 1950-2004 (1970-2004 only for Blacks). It also has archived maps and graphs from the publication, Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the U.S., 1950-94. Its features include:

• Dynamic, accessible graphs
• Interactive maps
• Downloadable data

• Cervix uteri cancer mortality, white females, 1950-94

  

• Zooming capabilities

  

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