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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 92(1):15-16; doi:10.1093/jnci/92.1.15
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 1, 15-16, January 5, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

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Putting Cancer on the Map

Katherine Arnold

While cartography and oncology sounds like an odd mix, two projects made public in December have put cancer on the map.

The projects, the National Cancer Institute's Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States: 1950-1994, and New York State's Cancer Surveillance Improvement Initiative, use intensive graphing software to map cancer rates at a county level. The technology is called geographic information systems, and its use has blossomed in the past 20 years as public health and medical researchers discover graphing software's value as a tool to focus in on smaller geographic areas that need attention.Go



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