This volume familiarizes readers with what has now become a very specific research endeavor, Geospatial Factors Impacting Breast Cancer. Cancer occurs in specific places and spaces, each of which have identifiable geographic coordinates, characterized by unique natural, built and social characteristics. These factors contribute significantly to cancer across the spectrum, from etiology through diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. The book provides important insights into this relatively new and rapidly developing field as a wide-ranging introduction to problems in cancer prevention and control for geographers, demographers and other researchers with a geospatial perspective. Experts share important information for all oncologists, endocrinologists, and behavioral modification professionals to better understand their patients in the context of their environment. The book also outlines important considerations for physicians, scientists, public health professionals and disparity investigators planning clinical trials, community interventions, and community planning.

Part One - Overview and Spatial Methods.- Chapter 1: Connecting Population, Health and Place (With Geospatial Tools and Data).- Chapter 2: Analyzing cancer and breast cancer in space and time.- Chapter 3: Creating Maps and Mapping Systems for Cancer Control and Prevention.- Chapter 4: Physical Activity and Exposure in Breast Cancer Survivors Using GPS, GIS, and Accelerometry.- Chapter 5: Towards Systematic Methods in an Era of Big Data: Neighborhood Wide Association Studies.- Chapter 6: Geospatial Approaches to Environmental Determinants of Breast Cancer in the California Teachers Study.- Chapter 7: Systematic Review of Geospatial Approaches to Breast Cancer Epidemiology.- Part Two - Environment and Context.- Chapter 8: Studying the Influence of the Neighborhood Obesogenic Environment on Breast Cancer in Epidemiological Cohorts: the Multiethnic Cohort.- Chapter 9: Spatial analyses of Environmental Exposures and Breast Cancer: Natural Vegetation, Ambient Air Pollution and Outdoor Light at Night as Examples.- Chapter 10: Neighborhoods and Breast Cancer Survival: The Case for an Archetype Approach.- Chapter 11: Environmental Modification of Adult Weight Loss, Physical Activity, and Diet Intervention Effects.- Part Three - Screening, Diagnosis and Beyond.- Chapter 12: Geographic Influences on Screening Mammography.- Chapter 13: Spatial and Contextual Analyses of Stage at Diagnosis.- Chapter 14: Geographic Variation in Medical Neighborhoods for Breast Cancer Care: Diagnosis and Beyond.- Part Four - Cross-cutting Topics.- Chapter 15: Persistent racial disparities in breast cancer mortality between Black and White women: what SR.- Chapter 16: Rural-Urban Disparities in Breast Cancer: Six Suppositions and Future Directions.- Chapter 17: Microenvironmental Influences on Team Performance in Cancer Care.- Chapter 18: Opportunities and Challenges in Geospatial Approaches to Breast Cancer Prevention and Control.- Index.