Improving clinical research and cancer care delivery in community settings: evaluating the NCI community cancer centers program

Table 1 Estimated Total Number of Cancer Diagnoses and Patients Treated in 2006 by Study Site

		Number of Cancer Patients Treated²
Study Site	Total Population Service Area¹	Breast	Colorectal	Prostate	Lung	Other	TOTAL
Billings Clinic, Montana	283,828	186	133	207	150	753	1,429
Christiana Hospital, Delaware	571,322	533	258	367	447	1258	2,863
Hartford Hospital, Connecticut	1,054,456	544	217	479	280	1075	2,595
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Louisiana	672,319	362	250	365	539	1075	2,591
St. Joseph's/Candler, Georgia	385,242	227	124	87	253	366	1,057
St. Joseph's, Orange, California	2,432,932	385	147	118	149	728	1,527
Sanford USD Medical Center, South Dakota	489,576	187	147	139	177	586	1,236
Spartanburg Regional Hospital, South Carolina	353,757	244	136	193	253	553	1,379
Ascension Health, based in Missouri: St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana	1,951,252	573	219	182	287	1934	3,195
Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee Wisconsin	685,066	417	157	227	169	692	1,662
Seton Family of Hospitals, Austin, Texas	1,544,670	371	171	58	300	1132	2,032
Catholic Health Initiatives, based in Colorado: Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, Colorado Springs, Colorado	477,263	208	156	197	110	552	1,223
St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, Maryland	633,814	205	128	155	124	463	1,078
CHI Nebraska coordinated regional program: Good Samaritan Hospital, Kearney, Nebraska	205,994	87	67	95	77	227	553
St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska	256,939	215	114	39	87	317	772
St. Francis Medical Center, Grand Island, Nebraska	106,724	104	106	82	59	208	559
TOTAL	12,105,154	4848	2530	2990	3461	11919	25,751

¹ Total Population Service Area: Data from the 2000 US Census that was updated in 2007 by Claritas, Inc. and purchased from Thomson Healthcare by the National Cancer Institute. Copyright © 2007, Claritas Inc., Copyright © 2007 Thomson Healthcare. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Provided by the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service (1-800-4- CANCER)
² Number of Cancer Patients Treated: Total number of new cancer cases seen at the hospital and the cancer center combined in 2006 based on tumor registry data.

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