SEER Program

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Bedside Risk Calculator to Preoperatively Distinguish Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma from Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. 
  • Age-related disparities in the use of radiotherapy for treatment of localized soft tissue sarcoma. 
  • Age-specific occurrence of HPV16- and HPV18-related cervical cancer. 
  • Aggressive variants of papillary thyroid cancer: incidence, characteristics and predictors of survival among 43,738 patients. 
  • Aggressive variants of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma are associated with extrathyroidal spread and lymph-node metastases: a population-level analysis. 
  • Akt expression may predict favorable prognosis in cholangiocarcinoma. 
  • An exponential growth in incidence of thyroid cancer: trends and impact of CT imaging. 
  • Analysis of primary CD30+ cutaneous lymphoproliferative disease and survival from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. 
  • Association Between Use of the 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay and Receipt of Chemotherapy Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Early-Stage Breast Cancer, 2005-2009. 
  • Association of Helicobacter pylori infection and diet on the risk of gastric cancer: a case-control study in Hawaii. 
  • Benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy after resection of stage II (T1-2N1M0) non-small cell lung cancer in elderly patients. 
  • Brachytherapy improves survival in primary vaginal cancer. 
  • Breast MRI utilization in older patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer. 
  • Breast cancer as heterogeneous disease: contributing factors and carcinogenesis mechanisms. 
  • Cancer incidence among union carpenters in New Jersey. 
  • Cancer screening in the elderly. 
  • Causes of death in long-term survivors of head and neck cancer. 
  • Cervical lymph node metastasis and papillary thyroid carcinoma: does the compartment involved affect survival? Experience from the SEER database. 
  • Characteristics of patients diagnosed with both melanoma and renal cell cancer. 
  • Chemoradiotherapy before and after surgery for locally advanced esophageal cancer: a SEER-Medicare analysis. 
  • Chemotherapy characteristics are important predictors of primary prophylactic CSF administration in older patients with breast cancer. 
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia in African Americans. 
  • Clinical outcomes of molecularly confirmed clear cell sarcoma from a single institution and in comparison with data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry. 
  • Combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma: a population-level analysis of an uncommon primary liver tumor. 
  • Comorbidity burden and guideline-concordant care for breast cancer. 
  • Comparison of demographic characteristics, surgical resection patterns, and survival outcomes for veterans and nonveterans with non-small cell lung cancer in the Pacific Northwest. 
  • Comparison of the use and results of sentinel lymph node biopsy in children and young adults with melanoma. 
  • Completion node dissection in patients with sentinel node-positive melanoma of the head and neck. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of opportunistic salpingectomy for ovarian cancer prevention. 
  • Costs, effectiveness, and workload impact of management strategies for women with an adnexal mass. 
  • Daily intake of antioxidants in relation to survival among adult patients diagnosed with malignant glioma. 
  • Dietary carbohydrate intake, glycaemic load, glycaemic index and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women. 
  • Discrete improvement in racial disparity in survival among patients with stage IV colorectal cancer: a 21-year population-based analysis. 
  • Disparities in cancer treatment among patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. 
  • Does comorbidity influence the risk of myocardial infarction or diabetes during androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer? 
  • Does surgery improve outcomes for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma? An analysis using the surveillance epidemiology and end results registry from 1998 to 2008. 
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  • Effect of practice integration between urologists and radiation oncologists on prostate cancer treatment patterns. 
  • Effect of primary prophylactic G-CSF use on systemic therapy administration for elderly breast cancer patients. 
  • Effectiveness of radiotherapy for elderly patients with anaplastic gliomas. 
  • Effects of Cancer Stage and Treatment Differences on Racial Disparities in Survival From Colon Cancer: A United States Population-Based Study. 
  • Epidemiologic support for melanoma heterogeneity using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. 
  • Epidemiologic support for melanoma heterogeneity using the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program. 
  • Evaluating the number of stages in development of squamous cell and adenocarcinomas across cancer sites using human population-based cancer modeling. 
  • Excess diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma during spring in the USA. 
  • Exploring the Relationship Between Patient Age and Cancer-Specific Survival in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Rethinking Current Staging Systems. 
  • Exploring the association between melanoma and glioma risks. 
  • Generalizability of trial results to elderly Medicare patients with advanced solid tumors (Alliance 70802). 
  • Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist overuse: urologists' response to reimbursement and characteristics associated with persistent overuse. 
  • Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor use and medical costs after initial adjuvant chemotherapy in older patients with early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Have 2006 ATA practice guidelines affected the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer in the United States? 
  • Head and neck soft tissue sarcomas: unique lack of significance of synchronous node metastases. 
  • Impact of Age on Long-Term Outcomes of Surgery for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma. 
  • Impact of Examined Lymph Node Count on Precise Staging and Long-Term Survival of Resected Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Population Study of the US SEER Database and a Chinese Multi-Institutional Registry. 
  • Impact of extent of surgery on survival for papillary thyroid cancer patients younger than 45 years. 
  • Impact of hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy prevalence on rates of cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer among American Indian and Alaska Native women, 1999-2004. 
  • Impact of mesothelioma histologic subtype on outcomes in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. 
  • Initial Trends in the Use of the 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay for Patients With Breast Cancer in the Medicare Population, 2005-2009. 
  • Insurance coverage among women diagnosed with a gynecologic malignancy before and after implementation of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Investigating racial disparities in use of NK1 receptor antagonists to prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among women with breast cancer. 
  • Linked insurance-tumor registry database for health services research. 
  • Longitudinal Trends in Costs of Palliative Radiation for Metastatic Prostate Cancer. 
  • Low-grade astrocytomas: the prognostic value of fibrillary, gemistocytic, and protoplasmic tumor histology. 
  • Malignant struma ovarii: a population-level analysis of a large series of 68 patients. 
  • Medullary thyroid microcarcinoma: a population-level analysis of 310 patients. 
  • Medulloblastoma and birth date: evaluation of 3 U.S. datasets. 
  • Merkel cell carcinoma: identification of prognostic factors unique to tumors located in the head and neck based on analysis of SEER data. 
  • Modest improvement in overall survival for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer: a trend analysis using the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results registry from 1988 to 2008. 
  • Morbidity risks among older adults with pre-existing age-related diseases. 
  • Multiple myeloma in the very old: an IASIA conference report. 
  • New stochastic carcinogenesis model with covariates: an approach involving intracellular barrier mechanisms. 
  • Outcomes of Active Surveillance for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: A Computational Risk Analysis. 
  • Pancreatic cancer mortality in Egypt: comparison to the United States pancreatic cancer mortality rates. 
  • Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: an over-treated malignancy? 
  • Participation in surgical oncology clinical trials: gender-, race/ethnicity-, and age-based disparities. 
  • Patients with follicular and Hurthle cell microcarcinomas have compromised survival: a population level study of 22,738 patients. 
  • Patterns of care in older patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a surveillance, epidemiology, and end results-medicare analysis. 
  • Pelvic exenteration for the treatment of locally advanced colorectal and bladder malignancies in the modern era. 
  • Predictors of survival in carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma. 
  • Presence and Number of Lymph Node Metastases Are Associated With Compromised Survival for Patients Younger Than Age 45 Years With Papillary Thyroid Cancer. 
  • Progestin and estrogen potency of combination oral contraceptives and endometrial cancer risk. 
  • Prognosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma: demographic, clinical, and pathologic predictors of survival in 1252 cases. 
  • Prognostic factors for squamous cell cancer of the parotid gland: an analysis of 2104 patients. 
  • Prostate cancer screening. Why the controversy? 
  • Quantifying the Dynamics of Field Cancerization in Tobacco-Related Head and Neck Cancer: A Multiscale Modeling Approach. 
  • Race/ethnicity and the receipt of watchful waiting for the initial management of prostate cancer. 
  • Racial differences in prostate cancer risk remain among US servicemen with equal access to care. 
  • Racial disparities in cancer care in the Veterans Affairs health care system and the role of site of care. 
  • Reducing ovarian cancer mortality through screening: Is it possible, and can we afford it? 
  • Rehospitalization among elderly patients with thyroid cancer after thyroidectomy are prevalent and costly. 
  • Representativeness of participants in the cancer care outcomes research and surveillance consortium relative to the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program. 
  • Resource Use in the Last Year of Life Among Patients Who Died With Versus of Prostate Cancer. 
  • Revisiting overdiagnosis and fatality in thyroid cancer. 
  • Risk of cerebrovascular events in elderly patients after radiation therapy versus surgery for early-stage glottic cancer. 
  • Sentinel lymph node biopsy is a prognostic measure in pediatric melanoma. 
  • Sentinel node biopsy in head and neck desmoplastic melanoma: an analysis of 244 cases. 
  • Simultaneous medullary and differentiated thyroid cancer: a population-level analysis of an increasingly common entity. 
  • Socioeconomic Status in Relation to the Risk of Ovarian Cancer in African-American Women: A Population-Based Case-Control Study. 
  • Solid malignancies among etanercept-treated patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's): long-term followup of a multicenter longitudinal cohort. 
  • State ranks of incident cancer burden due to overweight and obesity in the United States, 2003. 
  • Studying health histories of cancer: a new model connecting cancer incidence and survival. 
  • Surgical staging for endometrial cancer in the elderly - is there a role for lymphadenectomy? 
  • Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database analysis of microcystic adnexal carcinoma (sclerosing sweat duct carcinoma) of the skin. 
  • Survival differences between patients with scalp or neck melanoma and those with melanoma of other sites in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program. 
  • Survival of patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery for metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the targeted-therapy era. 
  • Survivors of childhood cancer in the United States: prevalence and burden of morbidity. 
  • The characteristics of bladder cancer after radiotherapy for prostate cancer. 
  • The dynamics of death in prostate cancer. 
  • The effect of physician characteristics and their practice environment on surgical referral patterns for early-stage breast cancer in Iowa. 
  • The impact of lymph node disease in extremity soft-tissue sarcomas: a population-based analysis. 
  • The impact of race and partner status on patterns of care and survival in young women with early-stage cervical cancer. 
  • The influence of radiation modality and lymph node dissection on survival in early-stage endometrial cancer. 
  • The use of adjuvant radiotherapy in elderly patients with early-stage breast cancer: changes in practice patterns after publication of Cancer and Leukemia Group B 9343. 
  • Time trends of incidence of age-associated diseases in the US elderly population: Medicare-based analysis. 
  • Trajectory of care and use of multimodality therapy in older patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. 
  • Treatment patterns for prostate cancer: comparison of Medicare claims data to medical record review. 
  • Trends and outcomes in the use of surgery and radiation for the treatment of locally advanced esophageal cancer: a propensity score adjusted analysis of the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results registry from 1998 to 2008. 
  • Trends in Thyroid Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the United States, 1974-2013. 
  • Trends in Treatment Patterns and Outcomes for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ. 
  • Trends in the incidence rates of nasopharyngeal carcinoma among Chinese Americans living in Los Angeles County and the San Francisco metropolitan area, 1992-2002. 
  • Trends in the outcomes for patients with limited stage small cell lung cancer: An analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. 
  • Tumor location is an independent prognostic factor in head and neck Merkel cell carcinoma. 
  • Understanding variation in primary prostate cancer treatment within the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Use of nephron sparing surgery and impact on survival in children with Wilms tumor: a SEER analysis. 
  • Use of patient registries and administrative datasets for the study of pediatric cancer. 
  • Validation of a breast cancer risk prediction model developed for Black women. 
  • Variations in use of PET among Medicare beneficiaries with non-small cell lung cancer, 1998-2007. 
  • Vestibular schwannomas in the modern era: epidemiology, treatment trends, and disparities in management. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Allen, Nancy Bates, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Rheumatology and Immunology
  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology