Population-based cancer surveillance has a pivotal role in assessing the nation's progress in cancer control. Cancer surveillance helps inform research and care interventions aimed at reducing the burden of cancer on patients and communities, including the ability to identify health disparities in cancer outcomes. Surveillance data are crucial for identifying emerging trends in health outcomes and opportunities to improve the quality of cancer care. However, challenges with the current approach to cancer surveillance in the United States include delays and gaps in data collection, as well as inadequate infrastructure and workforce to keep pace with the informatics and treatment-related advances in cancer. The National Cancer Policy Forum convened a public workshop to examine opportunities to enhance and modernize cancer surveillance in order to improve cancer research, care, and outcomes for all patients.
Planning Committee
Lisa Richardson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Co-Chair)
Robin Yabroff, American Cancer Society (Co-Chair)
Cathy Bradley, Colorado School of Public Health
Scarlett Lin Gomez, University of California, San Francisco
Nadia Howlader, National Cancer Institute
Larissa Nekhlyudov, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
and Harvard Medical School
Bryan Palis, American College of Surgeons
Susan Schneider, Duke University
Lawrence Shulman, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Winn, Virginia Commonwealth University
Speakers
Wendy Aldinger, Pennsylvania Cancer Registry
Volker Arndt, German Cancer Research Center
Vicki Benard, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Emily Castellanos, Flatiron Health
Mary Charlton, University of Iowa College of Public Health
Su Chen, MITRE
Jessica Chubak, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Peter Clardy, Google Health
Michaela Dinan, Yale University
Craig Earle, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
Jackie Gerhart, Epic
Aaron Goldenberg, Case Western Reserve University
Scarlett Lin Gomez, University of California, San Francisco
Sarah Greene, Cancer Research Advocate
Andrew Hantel, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University
Sandy Jones, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Nancy Keating, Harvard University
Betsy Kohler, North American Association of Central Cancer Registries
Douglas Lowy, National Cancer Institute
Deven McGraw, Ciitizen
Bryan Palis, American College of Surgeons
Lynne Penberthy, National Cancer Institute
Stephen Schwartz, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Kelly Shanahan, Metavivor
Elizabeth Shenkman, University of Florida
Lawrence Shulman, University of Pennsylvania
Samantha Spencer, College of American Pathologists
Peter Stetson, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Micky Tripathi, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Nadine Walker, National Cancer Registrars Association
Kevin Ward, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Jeremy Warner, Brown University
Peter Paul Yu, Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute & Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center