Breast, Colon, and Prostate Cancer Data Quality and Patterns of Care (PoC1) Study

In 2001, CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) began its first patterns of care cancer study called the Breast, Colon, and Prostate Cancer Data Quality and Patterns of Care (PoC1) study. Each of the seven participating registries is part of the NPCR. Several articles have been published—

Schymura MJ, Kahn AR, German RR, Hsieh MC, Cress RD, Finch JL, Fulton JP, Shen T, Stuckart E. Factors associated with initial treatment and survival for clinically localized prostate cancer: results from the CDC-NPCR Patterns of Care Study (PoC1). BMC Cancer 2010;10(1):152.

Cress RD, Sabatino SA, Wu X-C, Schymura MJ, Rycroft R, Stuckart E, Fulton J, Shen T. Adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with stage III colon cancer: results from a CDC-NPCR patterns of care study. Clinical Medicine: Oncology 2009;3:107–119.

German RR, Wike JM, Wolf HJ, Schymura MJ, Roshala W, Shen T, Schmidt B, Stuckart E. Quality of cancer registry data: findings from CDC-NPCR's Breast, Colon, and Prostate Cancer Data Quality and Patterns of Care study. Journal of Registry Management 2008;35(2):67–74.

Byers TE, Wolf HJ, Bauer KR, Bolick-Aldrich S, Chen VW, Finch JL, Fulton JP, Schymura MJ, Shen T, Van Heest S, Yin X; for the Patterns of Care Study Group. The impact of socioeconomic status on survival after cancer in the United States: findings from the National Program of Cancer Registries Patterns of Care study. Cancer 2008;113(3):582–591.

Wu X, Richardson LC, Khan A, Fulton JP, Cress RD, Shen T, Wolf HJ, Bolick-Aldrich S, Chen VW. Survival differences between non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic white women with localized breast cancer: the impact of guideline-concordant therapy. Journal of the National Medical Association 2008;100(5):490–498.

Alley LG, Fulton JP, Wike JM, Kahn AR, Roshala W, Chen VW, Rycroft RK, Bolick-Aldrich S, German R, Snodgrass J. Studying patterns of care: an evaluation of a project using CDC-NPCR data. Journal of Registry Management 2008;35(1):27–33.

Alley LG, Chen VW, Wike JM, Schymura MJ, Rycroft RK, Shen T, Bolick-Aldrich S, Roshala W, Fulton JP. CDC-NPCR's Breast, Colon, and Prostate Cancer Data Quality and Patterns of Care study: overview and methodology. Journal of Registry Management 2007;34(4)148–157.

McDavid K, Schymura MJ, Armstrong L, Santilli L, Schmidt B, Byers T, Steele CB, O'Connor L, Schlag NC, Roshala W, Darcy D, Matanoski G, Shen T, Bolick-Aldrich S. Rationale and design of the National Program of Cancer Registries' Breast, Colon, and Prostate Cancer Patterns of Care study. Cancer Causes and Control 2004;15(10):1057–1066.