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. 2022 Winter;49(4):109-113.

Assessment of Interstate Residential Mobility of SEER Patients: SEER and LexisNexis Residential Address Linkage

Zaria Tatalovich  1 , David G Stinchcomb  2 , Angela Mariotto  1 , Diane Ng  2 , Jennifer L Stevens  3 , Linda M Coyle  3 , Lynne Penberthy  1
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Assessment of Interstate Residential Mobility of SEER Patients: SEER and LexisNexis Residential Address Linkage

Zaria Tatalovich et al. J Registry Manag. 2022 Winter.

Abstract

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program is continuously exploring opportunities to augment its already extensive collection of data, enhance the quality of reported cancer information, and contribute to more comprehensive analyses of cancer burden. This manuscript describes a recent linkage of the LexisNexis longitudinal residential history data with 11 SEER registries and provides estimates of the inter-state mobility of SEER cancer patients. To identify mobility from one state to another, we used state postal abbreviations to generate state-level residential histories. From this, we determined how often cancer patients moved from state-to-state. The results in this paper provide information on the linkage with LexisNexis data and useful information on state-to-state residential mobility patterns of a large portion of US cancer patients for the most recent 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-year periods. We show that mobility patterns vary by geographic area, race/ethnicity and age, and cancer patients tend to move less than the general population.

Keywords: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program; data linkage; exposure estimates; residential history; social determinants.

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