Background Cancer screening is below targets in Ontario, Canada. Our objective was to
identify and quantify the barriers and facilitators for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer …

Background We conducted spatial analyses to determine the geographic variation of cancer
at the neighbourhood level (dissemination areas or DAs) within the area of a single Ontario …

Background Our objective was to determine the extent to which geographical core areas for
gonorrhea and syphilis are located in rural areas as compared with urban areas. Methods …

Global increases in thyroid cancer incidence (≥90% differentiated thyroid cancers; DTC) are
hypothesized to be related to increased use of pre-diagnostic imaging. These procedures …

Objectives Existing Canadian social determinants of health (SDOH) indicators do not quantify
uncertainty to identify priority areas. The objectives of this methodologic study were: (1) to …

… Contributors: Todd Norwood identified the knowledge gap … Todd Norwood and Emmalin
Buajitti have ongoing access to … the study cohort; Todd Norwood conducted the descriptive and …

12058 Background: Continued smoking after a cancer diagnosis is associated with poorer
outcomes. We previously identified that tobacco retail outlet density is negatively associated …

Overdetection of thyroid cancer from increasing use of diagnostic imaging is a leading
hypothesis to explain worldwide incidence rate increases in the context of low and relatively …

1. Ghazawi FM, Le M, Cyr J, et al. Analysis of acute myeloid leukemia incidence and geographic
distribution in Canada from 1992 to 2010 reveals disease clusters in Sarnia and other …

Context: In 1996, the American Thyroid Association (ATA) released the first practice guidelines
that included initial treatment for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), with updates in 2006 …