Cancer Control Practices and Their Effect on the Cancer Burden
This research focuses on models and methods to project the effect of new cancer control activities on the cancer burden. More specifically, the goal of this research is to:
- answer the "why" questions in the analysis of cancer incidence, survival and mortality trends;
- determine if recommended interventions are having their expected population impact, and
- predict the potential of new interventions on national trends.
Examples of past and ongoing projects include studies:
- relating the increased use of mammography to the rise in breast cancer incidence;
- investigating the relationship between major chemotherapeutic breakthroughs and the size and timing of their impact on population survival;
- modeling the impact of changes in diet, physical activity, and weight on recent trends in colon cancer incidence;
- investigating the impact of the introduction of PSA screening and TURPS on prostate cancer incidence and mortality trends.
The Statistical Research and Applications Branch is sponsoring a cooperative group of grantees who are utilizing modeling to investigate the impact of interventions (screening, treatment, primary prevention) on population-based cancer trends in the US for breast, prostate, colorectal and lung cancer. This group is collectively known as the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET).
