Map View
Map Exposures and Resources
Mirror Location
Population Filters
Compare View
List View
Stats & Factors

Map View

View cancer specific data such as mortality rate, or contextual factors like mammography screening rates.

Use both maps to compare cancer data against a contextual factor, or to compare 2 different locations.

Select location from the dropdown or use the mouse to click and drag the location. Us the +/- buttons to zoom.

Map Exposures and Resources

Click the Map Exposures and/or Resources dropdown menu to choose up to three additional items to display on the map, including specific environmental exposure sites as well as a variety of community resources

Mirror Location

The geography shown on the two maps will mirror each other as you select locations, zoom in or out, or pan through the map, if you click on slider option labeled “Mirror Locations” on the bottom right-hand corner of the second map.

Click “Mirror Locations” again to compare different geographies across the two maps.

Population Filters

Click on the Population filter dropdown to see rates for specific groupings of race & ethnicity, sex, and age.

All races & ethnicities, both male and female, ages 20-64 are shown by default.

Compare View

Click on the Compare View tab to view an indicator across two different populations in the same pane. Once you click “Compare View,” you can select the two comparison groups in the “Compare Populations” menu that appears below the map.

For example, using the Compare View, you can compare the age-adjusted incidence rates of colorectal cancer between Black Non-Hispanic adults (ages 20-64 years, both male & female) and White Non-Hispanic adults (ages 20-64 years, both male & female). A variety of combinations of race and ethnicity, sex, and age can be selected.

Once you click on the “Compare” button, you will see a split view of the state, allowing you to compare the rates across both geographic boundaries (e.g., counties) and populations (e.g., racial and ethnic, sex, and age groupings).

List View

Click on the List View button to see the data as a list of figures, instead as of a map. Geographic locations will be listed alphabetically in the first column.

Stats & Factors

Click on the Detailed Cancer Statistics tab to view more comprehensive cancer data, including incidence rates, mortality rates, late stage diagnosis, age at diagnosis, and histology. These data are represented in bar graphs that allow more comparisons across geography.

For example, you can compare overall breast cancer incidence rates in Monroe County to those in Baker County. You can also compare those same incidence rates to rates in another county, another neighborhood, or even at the state or Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center’s catchment levels.

Click on the Risk and Protective Factors tab to view more comprehensive data regarding the contextual risk and protective factors across levels of geography. For instance, you can compare such factors as poverty, racial composition, smoking prevalence, neighborhood vacancy rates, and healthcare access across counties, neighborhoods, and at the state and catchment levels. These factors are organized into socio-demographics, economic resources, housing/transportation, and healthcare access.

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Term Definitions

Incidence rate (age adjusted): Incidence rates estimate the number of people out of 100,000 that will be newly diagnosed with cancer in a particular year or specified period of time by location. Nearly every cancer becomes more common as people age. So, our rates are statistically age adjusted so that the proportions in our age 18 age groups (newborn-4 years, 5-9, 10-14, etc…) all match the US 2000 Standard Population.₁ Precancerous (i.e., in situ) lesions are excluded from these estimates (except for bladder cancer).
The estimates use cancer counts from the Florida Cancer Data System (FCDS) between 2012-2016.₂ The number of people living in each location comes from Florida Health Charts in those years.₃

Mortality rate (age adjusted): Mortality rates estimate the number of people out of 100,000 who die from cancer in a particular year or specified period of time and by location. Mortality becomes more common as people age, regardless of cancer diagnosis, so these rates are statistically age adjusted to that the proportions in our age 18 age groups (newborn-4 years, 5-9, 10-14, etc…) all match the US 2000 Standard Population.₁

Percent Late State Diagnosis: Cancer staging is a way of categorizing how far a cancer has spread from its point of origin.₄ This measure uses the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) summary staging guidelines. In these data, late stage was defined as having a SEER summary stage of 2, 3, 4, 5 or 7, which include regional extension with and/or without lymph nodes and distant cancer. Percent late stage diagnosis is the number of new cancer cases diagnosed at distant stage per 100,000 for a particular period of time, by location.

Years of Potential Life Lost: Years of potential life lost is an estimate of premature mortality due to cancer for a particular area. Each person who dies before the age of 75 contributes to the total number of years of potential life lost, whereby a person who dies at age 30 contributes 45 years of life lost, while a person who dies at age 70 contributes 5 years of life lost. These estimates are presented as the number of years per 100,000 and adjusted to the US 2000 Standard Population.₁

Census 2000 PHC-T-9. Population by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic or Latino Origin for the United States: 2000. United States Census Bureau. [Available from: https://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t9/tables/tab01.txt]
Florida Cancer Data System. [Available from: https://fcds.med.miami.edu]
Florida Population Estimates. Florida Department of Health. [Available from: http://www.flhealthcharts.com/FLQUERY/Population/PopulationRpt.aspx]
Annual Report to the Nation 2017: Incidence Summary. SEER. [Available from: https://seer.cancer.gov/report_to_nation/incidence.html]

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Health is more than healthcare

Healthcare is important – early and routine screening and health services can help prevent cancer and/or detect early disease when it is more treatable. As an example, in the map above, compare percent late stage breast cancer and mammography centers.

But health is more than healthcare. Neighborhood social and physical environments help shape health, including through lifestyles and habits as well as available health-promoting resources.

SCAN360 in Action

Using SCAN360, the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center outreach team recently discovered an alarmingly high rate of cervical cancer in Little Haiti. In response, experts and community members mobilized to increase the use of at-home devices to test for the human papilloma virus, which, left untreated, can lead to cervical cancer. The practice is now a model for community-based participatory research that addresses health disparities through the promotion of culturally sensitive behavioral and social change.

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Sylvester Office of Outreach & Engagement

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center supports initiatives to help the general public, first responders, the medically underserved, and minority populations.

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Research & Outreach Footprint

The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center conducts research and outreach activities which align around issues that are important to the surrounding communities. From innovative research studies to tailored outreach programs, every activity is customized to meet the needs of the Sylvester Catchment Area, made up of Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe Counties, as well as more broadly throughout the state of Florida and beyond.

SCAN Data

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Health is more than healthcare

SCAN360 in Action

Sylvester Office of Outreach & Engagement

Research & Outreach Footprint

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