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Using Spatial Visualization Software to Influence Cancer Control Policy: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer in South Carolina.

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Prostate cancer in the United States shows great disparities among race and socioeconomic status. Disparities in cancer rates in South Carolina are severe. Cancer control policies are lacking in ways to identify reasons for high risk populations and cost-effective ways to do so. An innovative spatial visualization program called the GeoViz Toolkit was used to determine areas of high Prostate Cancer incidence and mortality in South Carolina (rates obtained from the South Carolina Central Cancer Registry) compared with socioeconomic variables (education, income, lack of health insurance, and living in rural areas) and race. From there, recommendations were made using the South Carolina Cancer Alliance's "South Carolina Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan" objectives for Prostate Cancer for the top counties that were determined to have the highest need of intervention. These 11 counties include Colleton, Hampton, Allendale, Barnwell, Fairfield, Dillon, Marion, Marlboro, Williamsburg, Bamberg, and Orangeburg.

Source: Digital Commons - East Tennessee State University (East Tennessee State University)

Author: Shannon Amelia Shropshire

Language: English

Topic: Global Cancer Incidence and Screening

Subfield: Oncology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

OpenAlex ID: W33886101

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