Poster Presentation Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2022

VCR Data Explorer – A public-facing user-friendly application to gain understanding on Victorian cancer incidence, mortality, survival and prevalence (#187)

Luc te Marvelde 1 , Yachna Shethia 2 , Ryan Andrianto 3 , Cuong Lam 4 , Richard Muntz 4 , Sue M Evans 1 5
  1. Victorian Cancer Registry, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  2. Bendigo Health, Bendigo, VIC, Australia
  3. Corporate Services, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  4. Brand, Communications and Marketing, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  5. Cancer Research Program, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Aim - Develop an easy to use and understand platform to gain specific cancer information in Victoria for a wide range of users

Methods – Evidence-based Human-Centered Design approach were undertaken including stakeholder interviews and testing to identify and validate Victorian cancer data presentation and articulation. A prototype application was designed, and user acceptance testing was performed. The final data visualisation suite was built using PowerBI.

Results – Stakeholders were most interested (trends in) cancer incidence, mortality, survival and prevalence, including disparities in each of the measures according to sex, socio-economic position, Aboriginality and geography. User experience testing led to an updated design. A single R-script was coded to create all input data for the application. A PowerBI application was built focussing on stakeholder needs, user experience, as well as transparency in methodology and interpretability of the results.

Conclusions – The VCR Data Explorer is available now on the VCR homepage https://www.cancervic.org.au/research/vcr. This version will be the base on which we will build updates. We aim to include spatial patterns and well as prevalence as an outcome measure in the next update. Continuous post-publishing study is being conducted to ensure continuous improvement of the Data Explorer.