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Map Details - Montana Travel For Surgical Breast Cancer Treatment

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Impact Statement

This map shows how far and where Montanans travel for breast cancer surgery at selected Montana cities. For each Montanan receiving treatment in Montana for a diagnosis of breast cancer, a line from the Montanan’s residence to the city where the individual receives treatment is mapped and drawn. Most Montanans choose to receive treatment in six cities: Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell, and Missoula.

Travel For Surgical Breast Cancer Treatment (Excludes Lumpectomy) In Montana

Software Used

R Development Core Team (2009). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R-project.org.

Data Used

Residence – Montana Central Cancer Tumor Registry, Shapefiles – Montana National Resource Information System.

Methods Used

Street addresses were geocoded using an internet based geocoder. The sp and rgdal packages were used for spatial transformations and manipulations, and RColorBrewer was used to create the color scheme for the legend.

Contact the Submitter of this Map

Cody L. Custis, Epidemiologist, Montana DPHHS
(406) 444-6947
ccustis@mt.gov

How to Cite this Map

Travel For Surgical Breast Cancer Treatment (Excludes Lumpectomy) In Montana, [TODAY’S DATE].

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