Improving Visualization of Female Breast Cancer Survival Estimates: Analysis Using Interactive Mapping Reports.

Background: The Missouri Cancer Registry collects population-based cancer incidence data on Missouri residents diagnosed with reportable malignant neoplasms. The Missouri Cancer Registry wanted to produce data that would be of interest to lawmakers as well as public health officials at the legislative district level on breast cancer, the most common non-skin cancer among females.

Objective: The aim was to measure and interactively visualize survival data of female breast cancer cases in the Missouri Cancer Registry.

Estimated and Interactively Visualized Female Breast Cancer Incidence Rates in Missouri Senate Districts: 2008-2012.

Objectives: To measure and interactively visualize female breast cancer (FBC) incidence rates in Missouri by age, race, stage and grade, and senate district of residence at diagnosis from 2008 to 2012.

Methods: An observational epidemiological study. The FBC cases in counties split by senate districts were geocoded.

Usability Assessment of the Missouri Cancer Registry's Published Interactive Mapping Reports: Round One.

Background:  Many users of spatial data have difficulty interpreting information in health-related spatial reports. The Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center (MCR-ARC) has produced interactive reports for several years. These reports have never been tested for usability.