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Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network
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Definition 1
A group of researchers supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) who use statistical models to help understand how cancer prevention, screening, and treatment programs can affect the number of new cases of cancer diagnosed each year and the number of deaths from cancer each year. The Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network is now studying breast, colorectal, esophageal, lung, and prostate cancers. The models they create help guide future cancer control strategies, research priorities, policies, and decision making. Also called CISNET. (NCI Dictionary)
Definition 2
Created as part of the NCI Strategic Plan to Reduce Health Disparities. A collaborative group of grantees modeling the population impact of cancer control interventions for breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer. Modeling provides an opportunity to better understand the sources of health disparities in cancer mortality, extrapolate results of randomized clinical trials to groups that carry the heaviest burden of disease and have sometimes been underrepresented in trials, and provides strategies for cancer control interventions to reduce cancer-related health disparities. (NCI Thesaurus)
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