GIS at NCI Introduction to GIS at NCI Geospatial tools are used
at NCI for a variety of applications, including: - The
identification and display of the geographic patterns of cancer
incidence and mortality rates in the US and their change over
time, - The creation of complex databases for the study of
cancer screening, diagnosis and survival at the community level,
- Environmental exposure assessment through satellite imagery, -
Spatial statistical models to estimate cancer incidence,
prevalence and survival for every US state, - Communication of
local cancer information to the public and public health
professionals through interactive web-based tools, - The
identification of health disparities at the local level through
the comparison of cancer outcomes across demographic subgroups,
and - Development of new methods of displaying geospatial data
for clear communication to the public and for examination of
complex multivariate data by researchers. - The Epidemiology and
Genomics Research Program (EGRP) and th