PANDA provides infrastructure and analytic support for population-based cancer research at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. PANDA helps investigators access, manage, link, and analyze population-based cancer datasets to study cancer surveillance, treatment access, and survival in western Pennsylvania and across the United States using datasets such as SEER-Medicare, the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry (PACR), Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) hospital discharge data, the National Cancer Database (NCDB), and the UPMC Network Cancer Registry, along with area-level and geospatial data relevant to the Hillman catchment area.
PANDA provides consultation on study design and data selection, assistance with data management and linkage, analytic dataset creation, population-level and geospatial analyses, and support for manuscripts and grant applications.
Location & Hours of Operation
UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Suite 4C
UPMC Shadyside Hospital
5150 Centre Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
| Monday - Friday |
| 8:30am-5pm |
Citation Information
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30CA047904 and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Population-based Cancer Data and Analytics (PANDA) facility (RRID: SCR_028215).