All,
In follow up to the NCI/NAACCR Cancer Reporting Zone Project webinar held on October 23 and previous email sent on October 25, we would like to send you a reminder to please submit a completed questionnaire by today, November 15th if you are interested in participating in the project. Slides from the webinar and the questionnaire are attached. A recording of the webinar is also available at https://education.naaccr.org/.
Completed questionnaires can be sent to Zaria Tatalovich (tatalovichzp@mail.nih.gov), with Dave Stinchcomb (DavidStinchcomb@westat.com) and Diane Ng (DianeNg@westat.com) cc'd on the email.
Here is our plan and estimated timeline:
- Interested registries fill in the (attached) request for information
- NCI selects up to six registries for the first round
- We expect the process to take about 3 months with the rolling set of registries - when one finishes a new one would be added
Phase 1 (about 4 weeks)
– Kick-off presentation to participating registries
– Discuss the nature of existing geographic areas
– Westat generates zones and presents few alternative zoning solutions
Phase 2 (about 8-12 weeks)
– Registries review the alternative zone solutions, consult with stakeholders and make the final selection of the optimal zone design
– Zone naming
– Develop online tool with new zones for use with your registry
∙ Registries enter cancer rates and contextual variables
– Enter data in a common web site
– Help us work through the deployment of zone reporting
– National reporting
All the best,
--Zaria
Zaria Tatalovich, PhD [NIH]
Program Director | Geospatial Science
Surveillance Research Program
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
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