National Cancer Institute and the NHIS: Effective collaboration in understanding cancer control

Since 1987, the National Cancer Institute has collaborated with NCHS to develop and administer cancer control supplements to the NHIS. Data resulting from this collaboration provide cancer screening and tobacco control estimates for measuring healthy people goals and other national benchmarks. These NHIS supplements have also enhanced the availability of data for other aspects of cancer control, including tobacco consumption, other risk factors, and family history of cancer. Dr. Breen will present some trends and how these data have been analyzed to enhance our understanding of cancer control. Examples will be taken from cancer screening, tobacco control and other cross-cutting risk factor data available in the NHIS. Using the NHIS has been especially productive to NCI because of the wide range of co-variates collected on the NHIS, the nation's primary omnibus health survey.