New Publication in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention

Last updated on 2023-02-06 1 min read publication
Image credit: CEBP article

I co-authored an article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention entitled “Geographic Patterns in U.S. Lung Cancer Mortality and Cigarette Smoking” led by Alaina Shreves and Dr. Rena Jones. We applied geospatial statistical methods to describe patterns in lung cancer mortality rates (2005-2018) in relation to patterns in cigarette smoking prevalences (1997-2003) by sex at the US county level. Our findings identified counties where lung carcinogens other than smoking may be driving lung cancer mortality and where further study is needed. You can find the R langauge scripts to recreate the manuscript figures in this GitHub repository.

Update - 2023-02-06: Manuscript published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 32 Issue 2

smoking lung cancer mortality rate spatial analysis cluster detection
Ian Buller, PhD, MA
Ian Buller, PhD, MA
Epidemiologist

I’m a (geo)spatial statistician & environmental epidemiologist who primarily codes in R • All content is my own and does not represent my employer • he/him/his

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