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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
WILHELMINA ROSS, PA MPH, CTR is trained as a physician assistant and public health professional who is certified in tumor registration by the National Cancer Registrars Association. She
has experience in research, development, and operations for public health and epidemiologic research. She has worked with cancer surveillance data to conduct survival and other quantitative analysis and to investigate the outcomes of various types of cancer.
REFERENCES
HEATHER BROWN previously worked in the Screening for Life program and was the Comprehensive Cancer Control Program Director at the Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH). She is now the Chronic Disease Bureau Chief for DPH.
ANNA STANLEY LEE is a current student at Boston University pursuing a master’s degree in Public Health with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics. She previously worked for Westat on cancer registry projects, including the Delaware Cancer Registry.
Funding/Acknowledgement
These data were collected by cancer registries participating in the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We would also like
to acknowledge the Delaware Cancer Consortium and the Delaware Division of Public Health, Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention, and the Comprehensive Cancer Control Branch.
Delaware Cancer Registry Advisory Committee Members
Nicholas Petrelli, MD (Chair); David Bercaw, MD, FAAFP; Rachel Gardner, BSN, RN; Robert Hall-McBride, CTR; James Monihan, MD; Rishi Sawhney, MD; John Shevock, FACHE, FACMPE; James Spellman, MD, FASC, FSSO.
1. Cancer Prevention and Control Program: A Delaware Priority, Delaware.gov, Accessed May 6, 2019, www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/dpc/cancer.html.
2. Delaware Cancer Consortium, Healthy Delaware, Accessed May 6, 2019, www.healthydelaware. org/consortium.
3. Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Delaware, 2010-2014, Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, 2018, www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/dpc/files/ iandm2010-2014v2.pdf.
4. Delaware Cancer Consortium, Healthy Delaware.
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