Our Catchment Area
About Our Catchment Area
The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center catchment area currently includes 93 counties spanning a total area of 77358. This area is home to 2 million people with an anticipated growth of XX% by 2030. These counties are also the source of 80% of the cancer center’s patients.
Community Needs and Priorities
Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center conducts a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to identify health needs specific to the cancer center’s 93-county Catchment Area.
The Office of Community Outreach and Engagement has currently conducted the assessment in (year).
Community priorities are the cornerstone for determining Catchment Area priority cancers
Top cancers by incidence rate (2018-2022)
Breast – 128.3%
Prostate – 118.1%
Lung – 51.5%
Colorectal 38.6%
Melanoma 28.7 %
Top cancers by mortality rate (2018-2022)
Lung – 31.7%
Breast – 19.5 %
Prostate – 19.3%
Colorectal 14.7%
Pancrease 11.9%
Catchment area priorities: Brain, Breast, GI (colorectal and pancreas), Lung, Prostate.
Cancer center four thematic areas:
- Rural and Frontier Health
- Obesity and Nutrition
- Novel Cancer Therapy development
- Precision Prevention and Population Health
Data Dashboards
The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Nebraska’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer center, has launched two new data visualization tools to help communities in Nebraska better understand cancer burden and support local prevention and screening efforts.
Cancer InFocus Data Dashborad
The Cancer InFocus Data Dashboard is an interactive tool that provides county- and state-level information on cancer incidence, screening rates, risk factors and demographics. Users can explore local cancer trends and spot patterns to inform public health planning, outreach and research.
County Cancer Data Infographics
Services
Leading Nebraska into community-responsive research
The data analytics assessment team at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center outreach provides cancer-relevant and catchment area-focused data to support cancer research at Massey. Promotes collaboration, innovation, and excellence while fostering engagement with internal and external stakeholders. Leveraging external, publicly available datasets such as sociodemographic and cancer data from local, state and national sources, the team promotes a better understanding of the cancer center’s catchment area.
- Building catchment area data resources : Develop and maintain data resources that describe cancer burden, screening, risk factors, and related population health patterns across the FPBCC catchment area.
- Interpreting patterns in the data: Examine differences across places and populations and help put findings into context for cancer center planning, outreach, and engagement.
- Creating usable data products: Develop maps, dashboards, summaries, infographics, and presentation materials that make catchment area data easier to communicate and use.
- Supporting community-facing dissemination: Help shape how data are shared so that communication is clear, relevant, and appropriate for community and partner audiences.
- Contributing analytic expertise: Provide epidemiologic and geospatial support for work connected to FPBCC catchment priorities.