NAACCReview

Hannah K. Weir, Ph.D, Senior Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(NAACCR Steering Committee Chair)
Heart disease and cancer are the first and second leading causes of death in the United States.

When Ide Mills first learned about the Cancer Support Community Registry, she jumped at the chance to participate. Mills, who has stage 4 lung cancer, went online at cancerexperienceregistry.org to answer demographic questions and in-depth queries about her experience with her illness, such as what worried her the most and what her everyday challenges were in living with her disease.

Prostate and lung cancer have been the No. 1 and 2 cancers among men. Stomach cancer, the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, has been on a steady decline among Koreans and Japanese. Black men had the highest overall rates of cancer.

Millions of Americans may have heard on the news last week that metastatic prostate cancer was increasing dramatically in the United States. However, national data demonstrate that, in fact, the rates are not changing.

Zeinab El-Masri, MPH, Knowledge Dissemination & Evaluation Specialist, Surveillance and Ontario Cancer Registry
Cancer Care Ontario, a provincial cancer agency in Canada, has compiled more than 30 years of data from the Ontario Cancer Registry to produce the Ontario Cancer Statistics 2016 report.

Xuesong Han, Strategic Director, Health Policy & Healthcare Delivery Research, American Cancer Society
With millions of Americans gaining insurance through the Affordable Care Act, we can expect to see a change in the distribution of insurance status among cancer patients.

Recinda L Sherman, MPH, PhD, CTR Program Manager, Data Use & Research North American Association of Central Cancer Registries
(217) 698-0800 x 6; [email protected]
While there are some well established carcinogens, for example tobacco, the largest risk for most cancers is age.

In the end, lung cancer left Jerome Grant voiceless, a breathing tube in his windpipe.
He could say nothing when his wife Dawn spoke her last words to him: “I love you, you know that?”
He gave her a thumbs up. Then he closed his eyes and was gone.

A. Blythe Ryerson, MPH, PHD, Interim Chief, Cancer Surveillance Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NAACCR Committee Member)
(770) 488-2426; [email protected]
I’m pleased to announce the release of this year’s Report to the Nation, an annual collaborative effort by CDC, NCI, ACS, and NAACCR.

Christopher Johnson, MPH, Epidemiologist, Cancer Data Registry of Idaho (NAACCR Board – Representative-At-Large)
Multiple primary cancers are interesting because they can provide insight into the etiologic role of genes, the environment, and prior cancer treatment on a cancer patient’s risk of developing a subsequent cancer.