Predicting coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outcomes in the United States early in the epidemic.

By 21 October 2020, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic in the United States (US) had infected 8.3 million people, resulting in 61,364 laboratory-confirmed hospitalizations and 222,157 deaths. Currently, policymakers are trying to better understand this epidemic, especially the human-to-human transmissibility of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in relation to social, populational, air travel related and environmental exposure factors.

Comorbidities and the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality among racially diverse patients with breast cancer.

Background: Women who have coexisting comorbidities at the time of breast cancer diagnosis have an increased risk of breast cancer and overall mortality. However, the associations between newly diagnosed comorbidities and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality among these patients have not been examined.

Methods: The authors compared the associations between coexisting and newly diagnosed CVD, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension and the risk of CVD mortality among patients with breast cancer identified in the Missouri Cancer Registry.

Relationship between insurance status and outcomes for patients with breast cancer in Missouri.

Background: The cancer stage at diagnosis, treatment delays, and breast cancer mortality vary with insurance status.

Methods: Using the Missouri Cancer Registry, this analysis included 31,485 women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2015. Odds ratios (ORs) of a late-stage (stage III or IV) diagnosis and a treatment delay (>60 days after the diagnosis) were calculated with logistic regression.

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

Background: Health-related data's users have trouble understanding and interpreting combined statistical and mapping information. This is the second round of a usability study conducted after we modified and simplified our tested maps based on the first round's results.

Objective: To explore if the tested maps' usability improved by modifying the maps according to the first round's results.

The effect of metabolic risk factors on cancer mortality among blacks and whites.

Background: Previous data showed that metabolic syndrome (MS) and its components are associated with cancer mortality. However, whether the association varies by race is unclear. To examine the association between metabolic risk factors and cancer death in non-Hispanic whites (whites) and non-Hispanic blacks (blacks) in the US.

Ovarian Cancer Survival in Missouri, 1996-2014.

We evaluated relative survival (RS) for ovarian cancer (OC) overall, by demographic and by clinicopathological characteristics in Missouri. Survival data from the Missouri Cancer Registry were obtained for cases diagnosed 1996-2014. An improved OC survival, especially in late stage, was observed in the study period.

Five Fruit and Vegetable a Day Does Not Reflect the Upward Trend of Obesity in the U.S.

Objective: After almost three decades of U.S. surveillance in fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake and obesity, it is important to evaluate their usefulness for monitoring prevention and health promotion efforts in public health.

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.