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Current practices in cancer spatial data analysis: a call for guidance
Linda Williams Pickle1, Lance A Waller, Andrew B Lawson
1Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 6116 Executive Blvd,, Suite 504, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. picklel@mail.nih.gov.
Abstract:
There has long been a recognition that place matters in health, from recognition of clusters of yellow fever and cholera in the 1800s to modern day analyses of regional and neighborhood effects on cancer patterns. Here we provide a summary of discussions about current practices in the spatial analysis of georeferenced cancer data by a panel of experts recently convened at the National Cancer Institute.

