# Epidemiology and Pathology ## Epidemiology and Pathology ## Epidemiology and Pathology * Automated Cancer Registry Notifications: Validation of a Medical Text Analytics System for Identifying Patients with Cancer from a State-Wide Pathology Repository. * Text mining of cancer-related information: Review of current status and future directions * Classification of Cancer-related Death Certificates using Machine Learning * **Cancer Death Rates Decrease in Men, Women, and Children** The 2017 report found that cancer mortality decreased 1.8% per year in men, 1.4% per year in women, and 1.6% per year in children between 2010 and 2014. During this time frame, death rates decreased for lung, colorectal, female breast, and prostate cancers, among others, but increased for liver cancer in men and women, pancreas and brain cancers in men, and uterine cancer. * **References:** * * * * * * * **WHO IARC Cancer Today** Data visualization tools that present current national estimates of cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence * **GLOBOCAN** * **The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool** * **Cancer System Performance Report** * **California Cancer Registry** * **More people** are surviving a cancer diagnosis today than in the 1970s, [according to a report](https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jnci/djx030) released earlier this year by government agencies and cancer groups. ![](/files/foOo8va04OuObuoNM8Q3) * ![](/files/0d65mOz6iQWp5d1fuBrn) * Automated Cancer Registry Notifications: Validation of a Medical Text Analytics System for Identifying Patients with Cancer from a State-Wide Pathology Repository. * Text mining of cancer-related information: Review of current status and future directions * Classification of Cancer-related Death Certificates using Machine Learning * **Cancer Death Rates Decrease in Men, Women, and Children** The 2017 report found that cancer mortality decreased 1.8% per year in men, 1.4% per year in women, and 1.6% per year in children between 2010 and 2014. During this time frame, death rates decreased for lung, colorectal, female breast, and prostate cancers, among others, but increased for liver cancer in men and women, pancreas and brain cancers in men, and uterine cancer. * **References:** * * * * * * * **WHO IARC Cancer Today** Data visualization tools that present current national estimates of cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence * **GLOBOCAN** * **The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool** * **Cancer System Performance Report** * **California Cancer Registry** * **More people** are surviving a cancer diagnosis today than in the 1970s, [according to a report](https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jnci/djx030) released earlier this year by government agencies and cancer groups. ![](/files/foOo8va04OuObuoNM8Q3) * ![](/files/0d65mOz6iQWp5d1fuBrn) ## Epidemiology and Pathology * Automated Cancer Registry Notifications: Validation of a Medical Text Analytics System for Identifying Patients with Cancer from a State-Wide Pathology Repository. * Text mining of cancer-related information: Review of current status and future directions * Classification of Cancer-related Death Certificates using Machine Learning * **Cancer Death Rates Decrease in Men, Women, and Children** The 2017 report found that cancer mortality decreased 1.8% per year in men, 1.4% per year in women, and 1.6% per year in children between 2010 and 2014. During this time frame, death rates decreased for lung, colorectal, female breast, and prostate cancers, among others, but increased for liver cancer in men and women, pancreas and brain cancers in men, and uterine cancer. * **References:** * * * * * * * **WHO IARC Cancer Today** Data visualization tools that present current national estimates of cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence * **GLOBOCAN** * **The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool** * **Cancer System Performance Report** * **California Cancer Registry** * **More people** are surviving a cancer diagnosis today than in the 1970s, [according to a report](https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jnci/djx030) released earlier this year by government agencies and cancer groups. ![](/files/foOo8va04OuObuoNM8Q3) * ![](/files/0d65mOz6iQWp5d1fuBrn) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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