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Hannah K. Weir
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 96
Citations - 13970
Hannah K. Weir is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 91 publications receiving 10946 citations. Previous affiliations of Hannah K. Weir include University of Toronto.
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Construction of a North American Cancer Survival Index to Measure Progress of Cancer Control Efforts.
TL;DR: The construction of the North American Cancer Survival Index is described and how it can be used to compare survival by geographic area and by race is demonstrated and found less inter-registry variation in CSI estimates than in unstandardized all-sites survival estimates, but disparities by race persisted.
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The essential role of population-based cancer survival in cancer control in the United States.
TL;DR: The information contained in this supplement provides a unique perspective concerning cancer survival at the state, regional, and national levels, which can be used by cancer control planners and policy makers to help target and evaluate state-based cancer control strategies.
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Occupations of Fathers before Conception and the Risk of Testicular Cancer in their Sons
TL;DR: Two groups of tumours of the testis have distinct age distributions with nonseminomas occurring more commonly at younger ages than seminomas which peak during the 30’s, which suggests that they may have different etiologies or, if they have the same etiology, that the type of tumour depends on the age at which it develops.
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Incidence of Selected Cancers in Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescent and Young Adult Populations, 1999-2019.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors comprehensively evaluated incidence rates and trends among non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native (NH-AI/AN) adolescents and young adults (AYAs) ages 15-39 years.
KidneyCancerIncidenceandMortalityAmongAmerican IndiansandAlaskaNativesintheUnitedStates, 1990-2009
TL;DR: Kidney cancer incidence rates rose more rapidly for AI/AN persons than for Whites and death rates remained stable, while disparities between American Indian/Alaska Native and White populations were identified.