PANDA provides infrastructure and analytic support for population-based cancer research at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. PANDA helps investigators access, manage, link, and analyze population-based cancer datasets to study cancer surveillance, treatment access, and survival in western Pennsylvania and across the United States using datasets such as SEER-Medicare, the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry (PACR), Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) hospital discharge data, the National Cancer Database (NCDB), and the UPMC Network Cancer Registry, along with area-level and geospatial data relevant to the Hillman catchment area.

PANDA provides consultation on study design and data selection, assistance with data management and linkage, analytic dataset creation, population-level and geospatial analyses, and support for manuscripts and grant applications.