The ISCR Report Generator provides a method for creating reports based on data from the Indiana State Cancer Registry. A report consists of one or more tables that display counts or rates or both for cancer incidence or mortality data. You choose the fields for the rows and columns of the tables in the report. The fields you can choose from are race, sex, year (in 1-year, 5-year, or 10-year groups), site (or type of cancer), stage (the extent or spread of the cancer), and age (in 5-year cohorts).

If you select data at the county level, then the fields you can choose from are limited to the county, sex, year (in 5-year or 10-year groups only), and site. These limitations are to insure that patient confidentiality is protected.

In order to generate a report, click the Start button to display the Select Data page. Here you choose the type of data for the report (incidence, mortality, or staging data), the geographic area (the entire state or individual counties), the time period (1-year, 5-year, or 10-year intervals), whether rates should be age-adjusted, and the number of decimal places to display in rates.

After you've selected the data for your report, click the Next button to display the Select Fields page. Here you choose which fields to put in the rows and columns of table in the report. You can also select a third field as a "page" field. If you do, then a separate table is created for each value of the page field. In addition, you select a value from each field that is not a row, column, or page. The data in the table (or multiple tables if you choose a page field) applies only to the selected value of each of these fields.

After you've selected the fields for your report, click the Submit button to display the Summary page. This page displays a summary of the options you've selected. Click the Show button to display the table (or tables) based on your selections in a new window. You can print the results from this window. If you want to save the results, the best way to do that depends on whether you've chosen to display the results as HTML (the standard formatting for a web page) or some other format.

You can view a a video demonstration of generating a report by clicking the Demo button. The video requires Flash Player, which you can download for free.