Welcome to the Iowa Consortium for Comprehensive Cancer Control

Cancer Maps Site

 

Prepared by

Kirsten Beyer, Zunqiu Chen, Veronica Escamilla and Gerard Rushton

 

              Narrative Report on cancer maps 
     A Guide to Interpretation

 

  

Colorectal Cancer in Iowa 1998 – 2003	Breast Cancer in Iowa 1998 - 2003	Prostate Cancer in Iowa 1998 – 2003
Incidence rates County level Smoothed map	Incidence rates County level Smoothed map	Incidence rates County level Smoothed map
Observed minus Expected Incidences County level	Observed minus Expected Incidences County level	Observed minus Expected Incidences County level
Late Stage Rates County level Smoothed map	Late Stage Rates County level Smoothed map	Late Stage Rates County level Smoothed map
Observed minus Expected late stage incidences County level	Observed minus Expected late stage incidences County level	Observed minus Expected late  stage incidences County level
Mortality Rates                  County level                  Smoothed map	Mortality Rates                  County level                  Smoothed map	Mortality Rates                  County level                  Smoothed map

 

 

Acknowledgments

 

The preparation of these maps was made possible by a grant to the Iowa Department of Public Health from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number U55/CCU721906-04). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank the Iowa Cancer Registry and the Vital Statistics Department of IDPH for providing cancer and mortality data. We received help from Dr. Michele West from the Iowa Cancer Registry; Mr. Chetan Tiwari and Mr. Jerry Mount from the University of Iowa GIScience Laboratory and Mr. Chris Kahle from the Iowa Geological Survey. The computer program for computing the smoothed maps was written by Qiang Cai with support from NIH 1 R01CA95961-03.

 

For questions or comments on these maps: Gerard-rushton@uiowa.edu