Textbook of Cancer Epidemiology
Hans-Olov Adami, David Hunter, and Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Abstract
This book offers an overview of the epidemiology and primary prevention for most forms of human cancer. It summarizes concepts and methods of epidemiology, the biology of cancer, cancer genetics, and the emerging potential of biomarkers. It also reviews specific cancer sites in a consistent way, providing clinical and pathological outlines, descriptive epidemiology, and a comprehensive account of traditional and molecular risk factors and their etiological importance. An epilogue summarizes the major contributions that epidemiology has made in the last few decades to our understanding of the c ... More
This book offers an overview of the epidemiology and primary prevention for most forms of human cancer. It summarizes concepts and methods of epidemiology, the biology of cancer, cancer genetics, and the emerging potential of biomarkers. It also reviews specific cancer sites in a consistent way, providing clinical and pathological outlines, descriptive epidemiology, and a comprehensive account of traditional and molecular risk factors and their etiological importance. An epilogue summarizes the major contributions that epidemiology has made in the last few decades to our understanding of the causes of cancer, and speculates about future developments.
Keywords:
cancer epidemiology,
cancer prevention,
genetics,
environment,
etiology,
causes,
epidemiologic methods
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195311174 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311174.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Hans-Olov Adami, Editor
Harvard School of Public Health, USA, and Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute
David Hunter, Editor
Harvard School of Public Health
Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Editor
Harvard School of Public Health
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