Executive
Summary
Chapter
1: Introduction
1.1 NCI’s Cancer Surveillance Research Program
1.2 The Surveillance Implementation Group
1.2.1 Vision
for the Cancer Surveillance Research Program
1.2.2 Process
of the Surveillance Implementation Group
Chapter
2: NCI’s Cancer Surveillance Research Program: Where Are We Now?
2.1 The SEER Program
2.2 Explaining Trends in the Cancer Burden
2.2.1 Dimensions
of the Cancer Burden
2.2.2 Monitoring
Factors that Affect the Cancer Burden
2.2.3 The Relationship
of Risk Factors, Screening, and Treatment to the Cancer Burden
2.2.4 Why the
Cancer Burden is Changing and What Can Be Done to Reduce It
Chapter
3: The Strategy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Priority Area 1: Expand the scope of surveillance
research through additional data collection and methods development
Priority Area 2: Expand the scope of surveillance
to improve the representativeness of cancer burden estimates
Priority Area 3: Produce and disseminate a
national report card on the cancer burden
Priority Area 4: Support molecular and genetics
research for surveillance
Priority Area 5: Develop a training strategy
for cancer surveillance research
Appendix
A: The NCI Surveillance Implementation Group
Appendix
B: Cancer Surveillance in the United States
Appendix
C: Major Surveys and Databases Used by NCI’s Cancer Surveillance Research
Program
Appendix
D: List of Acronyms