Your SOURCE for
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Cancer control research tools, resources, and funding
announcements
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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
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Cancer statistics from the SEER and State Cancer Profiles
websites, among others
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Reports, including the
Cancer Trends Progress Report
and
the
Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer
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Monographs about tobacco control, diet and physical activity,
cancer incidence, cancer costs, patient-centered communication,
cancer staging and registry data, mortality, and survival
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Intervention products for health communication, nutrition,
cancer screening, and smoking prevention and cessation
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Information concerning current trans-NIH and NCI-funded
research initiatives
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Employment and training opportunities in the Division for Cancer
Control & Population Sciences
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Smokefree.gov web and mobile mHealth resources for use
in research studies
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Information on dissemination and implementation research
Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences
Visit cancercontrol.cancer.gov
What’s NEW
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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
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Springboard Beyond Cancer, a website designed in collaboration
with the American Cancer Society, helps cancer survivors actively
manage treatment symptoms and related health behaviors
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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
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The Cancer Epidemiology Descriptive Cohort Database, a public
resource that provides descriptive information on cohorts studying
cancer as a primary outcome
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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
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The Infectious Agents and Cancer Epidemiology Research
webinar series
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The
Scientific News from the Behavioral Research Program
newsletter
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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
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Funding opportunities that focus on cancer caregivers and human
papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake
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Information about the SEER-Consumer Assessment of Healthcare
Providers and Systems (SEER-CAHPS) linked data resource,
along with public use data
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Data from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey Cancer
Control Supplement
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Free, public use data files from all iterations of the 2003–2015
Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)
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NCI GeoViewer, which allows users to create maps of cancer
statistics, demographics, and risk factors
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Updated cancer stat fact sheets with statistical summaries for
common cancer types
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The
Did You Know?
video series highlighting key topics and trends
in cancer statistics
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Know Your Chances, a website presenting interactive risk charts
to put cancer risk in context
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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)
Program Committee /
Scientific Sessions