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Other Epidemiological Resources
Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)
Surveillance
Outcome Software
Exposure Assessment
Database management software

Other Epidemiological Resources

California Health Interview Survey

Population-based, standardized, health-related data from households in California

Cancer Survivor Prevalence Statistics

Statistics, definitions of cancer prevalence, references

Computerized Heterocylic Amines Resource for Research in Epidemiology of Disease (CHARRED)

Software, food frequency questionnaire, mutagen database

Directory of Products Developed through Multimedia Technology Health Communication Grants for Small Businesses

Database of products from the Division of Cancer Control and Populations Sciences

Fast Stats

Provides access to pre-calculated cancer statistics and output options: SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1973-1998

Finding Cancer Statistics

Website for access to recent reports, datasets, and statistical tools for professionals and the public

Health Information National Trends Survey

Survey designed to analyze data to gain insight into people's knowledge about cancer

National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Cancer Control Topical Module

Data collection survey instruments, data processing, data analyses, etc.

Physician Health Plan Surveys

National survey data used to analyze the status of cancer control

Pyramid Servings Database for NHANES III

Examination of dietary data from the National Center for Health Statistics' Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Questionnaire Modules (QMOD)

Collection of sample research questionnaire modules; includes a search function

Special Populations Networks

Links to cancer information for special populations

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Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)

SEER Public Use File

Individual records on cancers diagnosed in residents of SEER areas

SEER*Prep Software

Software to facilitate data analysis

SEER*Stat Software

Statistical package for the analysis of SEER and other cancer databases

SEER-Medicare Database

Links data from SEER registries with Medicare claims data

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Surveillance

Cancer Atlas

Atlas maps for exploring associations between environmental/occupational factors and cancer

Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs Web Site

Create customized graphical displays of geographic patterns and time trends of cancer death rates.

Cancer Query Systems

Web query with access to over 10 million cancer statistics

DevCan Software Program

Calculates population estimates of the lifetime and age-conditional risks of developing cancer and dying from cancer using cross-sectional incidence and mortality rates

Geographic Information System for Breast Cancer Studies on Long Island (LI GIS)

Investigate potential relationships between environmental exposures and risk for breast cancer

Joinpoint Regression Program

Statistical software to analyze joinpoint models

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Outcome Software

CaseControlIndGX

CaseControlIndGX is a MATLAB software package for maximum-likelihood analysis of case-control studies under the assumption of gene-environment independence.

KinCohort

KinCohort is a MATLAB software package for likelihood-based analysis of kin-cohort data.

MultAssoc

MultAssoc is a MATLAB software package to test for the association of a disease with a group of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) after accounting for their interaction with another group of SNPs or environmental exposures.

NestedCohort

NestedCohort is an R software package.

POWER Software

Calculates power and sample size for interactions in epidemiological studies

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Exposure Assessment

Datasets from Completed Occupational Epidemiology Studies

Datasets not actively being used in studies by Occupational Epidemiology Branch

Dietary Assessment Calibration/Validation (DACV) Register

Studies and publications comparing dietary intake estimates from various dietary assessment methods

I-131 Dose/Risk Calculator

The materials are designed to address the concerns of Americans who were exposed to I-131 from above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Interactive Risk Attributable Program

Calculates attributable risk for a variety of epidemiologic designs

Job Modules for Occupational Questionnaires

Assessment of occupational exposures in case-control studies

Occupational Code Assignment System (CodeSearch)

Dataset of occupation and industry job codes

Tobacco Use Supplement - Current Population Survey

Source of national and state data on smoking and other tobacco use in the U.S.

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Database management software

Biospecimen Inventory Processing System (BSI-II)

Downloadable repository tracking system

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