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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2022 Apr 5;33(6):899–911. doi: 10.1007/s10552-022-01571-0

Table 2.

Use case examples compiled based on stakeholder input

Stakeholder Group Use Cases
Cancer center community outreach teams
  • Prioritize communities needing services from a mobile mammography unit based on high rates of late-stage breast cancer diagnosis, low mammography facility density, and poor transportation access

  • Compare certain process measures (e.g., time from diagnosis to treatment), risk factors, and outcomes (e.g., incidence, mortality, stage at diagnosis) for patients across communities, benchmarked against state/national averages

  • Report outcomes for NCI-designated cancer center catchment areas

Cancer advocacy organizations
  • Prioritize communities/subpopulations for advocacy and funding activities

  • Compile descriptive cancer burden statistics for a population of particular interest to a foundation grant funder

  • Provide data to inform government-targeted advocacy activities

Local public health
  • Support applications for state and federal funding with cancer burden and demographic statistics

  • Support cancer cluster investigations stemming from citizen inquiries

Researchers
  • Provide community-level data to local partners to stimulate hypothesis generation and inform study design as a component of community-engaged/partnered research

  • Identify the size and demographic makeup of relevant sampling frames as part of determining study feasibility

  • Compile inclusion enrollment data for population-based study proposals

  • Use demographic, process, and outcomes data to target primary data collection (e.g., semi-structured interviews) in disparities research