Stomach cancer incidence and mortality trends among circumpolar nations

J Simkin, SH Nash, A Barchuk, DK O'Brien… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2021 - AACR
Background: Stomach cancer incidence and mortality rates are declining across circumpolar
nations, but the burden may not be distributed equally across subpopulations, including …

Addressing Inequity in Spatial Access to Lung Cancer Screening

J Simkin, E Khoo, M Darvishian, J Sam, P Bhatti… - Current …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: The successful implementation of an equitable lung cancer screening program
requires consideration of factors that influence accessibility to screening services. Methods …

Small area disease mapping of cancer incidence in British Columbia using Bayesian spatial models and the smallareamapp R Package

J Simkin, TJB Dummer, AC Erickson… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction There is an increasing interest in small area analyses in cancer surveillance;
however, technical capacity is limited and accessible analytical approaches remain to be …

The Alaska Native Tumour Registry: fifty years of cancer surveillance data for Alaska Native people

SH Nash, GL Zimpelman, KN Miller… - … journal of circumpolar …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Like other Indigenous Circumpolar populations, Alaska Native (AN) people
experience different patterns of cancer than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Every 5 …

Gastric cancer in Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Alaska, 1990–2017

LD Nolen, S Bressler, SM Vindigni… - Clinical and …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
METHODS: Cancer data were collected by the Alaska Native Tumor Registry and National
Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. Comparisons were …

Utility gains from reductions in the modifiable burden of lung cancer attributable to residential radon in Canada

J Gaskin, D Coyle, J Whyte, D Krewski - Canadian Journal of Public …, 2018 - Springer
Research question The objective of this analysis is to estimate the modifiable burden of
disease according to the annual number of lung cancer deaths prevented and the …

Management of patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) in a rural part of North Norway with a scattered population: does living near the department of oncology …

C Nieder, A Dalhaug, E Haukland… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services is to offer an equal health-
care service with the same outcomes wherever people are living within the country. The aim …

Collaborative approaches to wellness and health equity in the Circumpolar North: introduction to the special issue

N Pollock, A Cunsolo - International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This special issue brings together a series of papers that were presented at the Northern,
Rural, and Remote Health Conference in Labrador, Canada. In this collection, scholars and …

Antibiotic dispensation rates among participants in community-driven health research projects in Arctic Canada

K Williams, A Colquhoun, R Munday, KJ Goodman… - BMC Public Health, 2019 - Springer
Background Community-driven projects that aim to address public concerns about health
risks from H. pylori infection in Indigenous Arctic communities (estimated H. pylori …

Spatial epidemiological analysis of cancer incidence in British Columbia, Canada

JD Simkin - 2022 - open.library.ubc.ca
Background: In British Columbia (BC), geographic variation in cancer risk was reported
across large geographic areas and without spatial statistics. More local-based analyses …