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General description

The Patterns of Care (POC) initiative was initiated in 1987, with SEER cases serving as controls for a study examining the provision of state-of-the-art therapy in Community Clinical Oncology Program hospitals.

POC presents three inter-related goals:

• To disseminate findings through scientific presentations and publications.
• To evaluate the dissemination of state-of-the-art cancer diagnostics and therapy into community oncology practice.
• To identify patient-, provider-, and system-level factors associated with receiving and utilizing cancer care.

POC data have enabled researchers to examine disparities in receipt of cancer therapies, diagnostic tests, and biomarkers by age, race/ethnicity, and residential urbanicity/rurality. They also have been used to show trends in cancer therapy and survival over time for sites with multi-year data.

Variable categories

• Breast Cancer
• Colorectal cancer
• Gastric cancer
• Gastrointestinal stromal cancer (GIST)
• Germ cell cancer - AYA
• Head and neck cancers
• Childhood cancers - Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), Acute myelocytic leukemia (AML), Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Brain stem cancer, Neuroblastoma, Ewing's sarcoma, Osteosarcoma
• Hepatocellular cancer
• Kidney cancer
• Leukemia - Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) - AYA, Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
• Lung cancer
• Lymphoma

Publications

• Receipt of guideline-concordant care among young adult women with breast cancer
• Trends in Cancer Treatment for Oral Cavity, Oropharynx, and Larynx in 2016 Versus 2009: SEER Patterns of Care Studies
• Applying computer text mining algorithms for oversampling tumor mutation status in medical records for the NCI Patterns of Care studies
• Rural–urban differences in secular trends of locoregional treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ: A patterns of care analysis
• Influence of rurality on lymph node assessment among women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ and treated with mastectomy, SEER 2000–2015

Data access

To access PoC data, visit https://healthcaredelivery.cancer.gov/poc/access.html

More information about PoC can be found at https://healthcaredelivery.cancer.gov/poc/