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ArticleCancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology2024

Geospatial Science for the Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer in the Exposome Era.

Trang VoPham, Alexandra J White, Rena R Jones

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Article in Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. A Practical Strategy of Informatics, Geospatial Mapping, Geodemographic Segmentation, and Regression Analyses to Address Nonadherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2026
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  5. Development of Life Course Exposure Estimates Using Geospatial Data and Residence History.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Trang VoPhamEpidemiology Program, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington.ORCID 0000-0003-4787-1201
Alexandra J White *Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.ORCID 0000-0003-2455-2945
Rena R Jones *Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland.ORCID 0000-0003-1294-1679
Department of Health and Human Services · USNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Cancer Risk and Environmental ExposuresZIACP010125 · DIVISION OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS · 2025 to 2025
$4.2M
Environment and Cancer EpidemiologyZIAES103332 · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · 2025 to 2025
$1.3M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA CP010125Intramural NIH HHS ZIA ES103332NIDDK NIH HHS K01 DK125612NIEHS NIH HHS L30 ES027668
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Geospatial science is the science of location or place that harnesses geospatial tools, such as geographic information systems (GIS), to understand the features of the environment according to their locations. Geospatial science has been transformative for cancer epidemiologic studies through enabling large-scale environmental exposure assessments. As the research paradigm for the exposome, or the totality of environmental exposures across the life course, continues to evolve, geospatial science will serve a critical role in determining optimal practices for how to measure the environment as part of the external exposome. The objectives of this article are to provide a summary of key concepts, present a conceptual framework that illustrates how geospatial science is applied to environmental epidemiology in practice and through the lens of the exposome, and discuss the following opportunities for advancing geospatial science in cancer epidemiologic research: enhancing spatial and temporal resolutions and extents for geospatial data; geospatial methodologies to measure climate change factors; approaches facilitating the use of patient addresses in epidemiologic studies; combining internal exposome data and geospatial exposure models of the external exposome to provide insights into biological pathways for environment-disease relationships; and incorporation of geospatial data into personalized cancer screening policies and clinical decision making.

Indexed as

ExposomeNeoplasmsEnvironmental ExposureEpidemiologic StudiesGeographic Information SystemsHumans

Identifiers

PMID38566558
PMCPMC10996842
OpenAlexW4393864428

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