Georgia Center for Cancer Statistics
The Georgia Center for Cancer Statistics (GCCS), a division of the Department of Epidemiology in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, was founded in 1976 to provide population-based incidence data for a five-county region around Metropolitan Atlanta, as part of the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. In 1978, SEER coverage in Georgia expanded with the addition of 10 rural counties to the southeast of Atlanta.
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In 1995, the Georgia Department of Community Health, Division of Public Health (now known as the Georgia Department of Public Health) established the statewide Georgia Cancer Registry with funding from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Program of Cancer Registries. Given its longstanding history of collecting cancer surveillance data in Georgia as part of the SEER Program, GCCS was designated by the Georgia Department of Public Health as its agent for the purpose of collecting, editing, consolidating, and monitoring cancer data
and its reporting in Georgia. The data from this registry furthers our understanding of cancer in Georgia and is used to develop strategies and policies for cancer prevention and control.