Understanding Maps and Statistics

Mapping and statistical tools for cancer research are becoming more sophisticated and more integral to studies of environmental connections to risk. Background knowledge about how maps and statistics are useful and how they are limited is the key to using these resources correctly.

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Fact Sheets about Maps and Statistics

Understanding Breast Cancer Rates Text | PDF | Bibliography
Revised in 2004. Explores the calculation and comparison of cancer rates with a special emphasis on New York State.

**Articles from The Ribbon about Maps and Statistics**

Special Edition on Cancer Mapping Topics PDF
(Early Spring 2003)
Individual Articles from the Special Edition
- Mapping Disease: Deciphering Geographic Patterns from Cholera to Breast Cancer Text
- Mapping the Environment and Breast Cancer on Cape Cod, MA Text
- New York State's Cancer Mapping Project Text
- Geographic Information Systems and Breast Cancer in Western New York Text
Using NCI's Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States 1950-94 and Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs Web Site Text Maps
(Winter 2002)