APHA 2016 Annual Meeting
Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences Visit cancercontrol.cancer.gov
Your SOURCE for • Cancer control research tools, resources, and funding announcements
• Intervention products for health communication, nutrition, cancer screening, and smoking prevention and cessation • Information concerning current trans-NIH and NCI-funded research initiatives • Employment and training opportunities in the Division for Cancer Control & Population Sciences • Smokefree.gov web and mobile mHealth resources for use in research studies • Information on dissemination and implementation research
• Survey instruments and public use data for many topic areas, such as cancer information seeking and decision making, diet, physical activity, tobacco use and cessation, cancer screening, quality and cost of care, cancer outcomes, and survivorship • Cancer statistics from the SEER and State Cancer Profiles websites, among others • Reports, including the Cancer Trends Progress Report and the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer • Monographs about tobacco control, diet and physical activity, cancer incidence, cancer costs, patient-centered communication, cancer staging and registry data, mortality, and survival What’s NEW • Smokefree.gov’s Practice Quit and Daily Challenges, two new smoking cessation text messaging programs to help ambivalent smokers build skills and positive experiences for quitting • Springboard Beyond Cancer, a website designed in collaboration with the American Cancer Society, helps cancer survivors actively manage treatment symptoms and related health behaviors • 2014–15 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS) cross-sectional data, including data on attitudes toward smokefree policies in multiunit housing as well as core tobacco use patterns • The Cancer Epidemiology Descriptive Cohort Database, a public resource that provides descriptive information on cohorts studying cancer as a primary outcome • A mobile-friendly version of the free Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour (ASA24) Dietary Assessment Tool, which collects food recall and other food records for epidemiologic, surveillance, clinical, and intervention-based research; for diet assessment and nutrition counseling in clinical settings; and for teaching purposes by educators • The Infectious Agents and Cancer Epidemiology Research webinar series • The Scientific News from the Behavioral Research Program newsletter • Access to research tools for measuring patient-reported outcomes, including the Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE™) and HealthMeasures
• Funding opportunities that focus on cancer caregivers and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake • Information about the SEER-Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (SEER-CAHPS) linked data resource, along with public use data • Data from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey Cancer Control Supplement • Free, public use data files from all iterations of the 2003–2015 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) • NCI GeoViewer, which allows users to create maps of cancer statistics, demographics, and risk factors • Updated cancer stat fact sheets with statistical summaries for common cancer types • The Did You Know? video series highlighting key topics and trends in cancer statistics • Know Your Chances, a website presenting interactive risk charts to put cancer risk in context • SEER*Explorer, a new interactive website that provides easy access to a wide range of SEER cancer statistics (e.g., cancer site by gender, race, calendar year, age)
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