Vermont Breast Cancer Surveillance System

描述(由申请人提供)：佛蒙特州乳腺癌监测系统(VBCS)在这份合作协议申请中建议继续成为多地点国家癌症研究所乳腺癌监测联盟(BCSC)的成员。我们此次更新的目标是继续收集高质量的数据，并鼓励将其用于乳腺癌监测研究和政策决策。作为美国最农村的州，佛蒙特州非常适合补充目前在NCI联盟中代表的更多城市地点。此外，随着全州范围内正在进行的乳房X光摄影病理登记以及强制州癌症登记，我们的网站已做好充分准备，继续积极贡献和利用监测数据。我们对这项建议的目标是：1)维持和改进全面的、有质量控制的全州监测系统，该系统可以访问现有的记录，并从乳房X光检查设施、病理实验室和基于人群的癌症登记中收集新的信息；2)鼓励使用特定地点和乳腺癌监测联盟，由来自多个学科的地方、国家和国际研究人员汇集数据，用于不同类型的研究；3)通过指导委员会成员、电话和面对面会议，继续积极参与NCI的乳腺癌监测联盟，并与NCI的项目主任/科学家以及统计协调中心的工作人员和调查人员进行互动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Vermont Breast Cancer Surveillance System (VBCSS) proposes in this cooperative agreement application to continue membership in the multi-site National Cancer Institute's Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC). Our goal for this renewal is to continue to collect high quality data and encourage its use for breast cancer surveillance research and policy decisions. As the most rural state in the nation, Vermont is well suited to complement more urban sites currently represented in the NCI Consortium. In addition, with an ongoing statewide mammography-pathology registry coupled with a mandated state cancer registry, our site is well prepared to continue to actively contribute to and utilize surveillance data. Our aims for this proposal are to: 1) maintain and improve a comprehensive, quality controlled, statewide surveillance system that accesses existing records and collects new information from mammography facilities, pathology laboratories, and a population-based cancer registry; 2) encourage use of site-specific and Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium pooled data by local, national and international researchers from multiple disciplines and for diverse types of research and; 3) continue to actively participate in the NCI's Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium through membership of the Steering Committee, telephone and in person meetings, and interact with the project director/scientists at NCI and with the staff and investigators at the Statistical Coordinating Center.