Full Description
"Comprehensive and comprehensible, but also encouraging -- informed by the hope and belief that informed its creation." -Cancer
Amid sweeping advances in the science and treatment of cancer, the TEXTBOOK OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY offers students and professionals a definitive, systematic resource for understanding the factors affecting all types of human cancer.
This fully updated new edition offers an overview of epidemiology's key concepts and methods as they relate to cancer (including the emerging potential of biomarkers) as well as site-specific chapters on individual cancers' natural history, pathology, descriptive epidemiology, and etiology. Taken together, these chapters forge connections between established science and the ongoing evolution of this dynamic field.
Crisply and concisely written by an assembly of internationally recognized researchers, the TEXTBOOK OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY offers a superlative introduction to the subject's consensuses and controversies for those embarking on their careers and a ready reference for seasoned professionals.
Contents
Dedication
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
About the Editors
Contributors
Part I
1. Accomplishments in Cancer Epidemiology
Brian MacMahon
2. Measures and estimates of cancer burden
Paolo Boffetta, Dana Hashim, and Pagona Lagiou
3. The Origins of Cancer
Jeffrey Ecsedy and David J. Hunter
4. Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer
Christopher Haiman and David J. Hunter
5. Biomarkers in Cancer Epidemiology
Paolo Boffetta and Lorelei Mucci
6. Concepts in Cancer Epidemiology and Etiology
Pagona Lagiou, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, and Lorelei Mucci
Part II
7. Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer
Jennifer Rider, Paul Brennan, and Pagona Lagiou
8. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Ellen T. Chang and Hans-Olov Adami
9. Esophageal Cancer
Christian C. Abnet, Olof Nyrén, and Hans-Olov Adami
10. Stomach Cancer
Wemin Ye, Olof Nyrén, and Hans-Olov Adami
11. Colorectal Cancer
Nana Keum, Kana Wu, Edward Giovannucci, and David J. Hunter
12. Cancer of the Liver and Biliary Tract
Christina Bamia, Sherri Stuver, and Lorelei Mucci
13. Pancreatic Cancer
Vassiliki Benetou, Anders Ekbom, and Lorelei Mucci
14. Cancer of the Lung, Larynx, and Pleura
Jyoti Malhotra, Paolo Boffetta, and Lorelei Mucci
15. Skin Cancer
Adèle Green, Catherine Olsen, and David J. Hunter
16. Breast Cancer
Rulla Tamimi, Susan Hankinson, and Pagona Lagiou
17. Cervical Cancer
Karin Sundström, Joakim Dillner, and Hans-Olov Adami
18. Endometrial Cancer
Marta Crous-Bou, Immaculata De Vivo, and Pagona Lagiou
19. Ovarian Cancer
Penelope Webb, Susan Jordan, and David J. Hunter
20. Prostate Cancer
Kathryn M. Wilson and Lorelei Mucci
21. Testicular Cancer
Lorenzo Richiardi, Giovenale Moirano, and Pagona Lagiou
22. Urinary Bladder Cancer
Jonine Figueroa, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Manolis Kogevinas, and Lorelei Mucci
23. Kidney Cancer
Xuehong Zhang, Eunyoung Cho, and Hans-Olov Adami
24. Brain Cancer
Dominique Michaud, David Savitz, and Lorelei Mucci
25. Thyroid Cancer
Carlo La Vecchia, Cristina Bosetti,and Hans-Olov Adami
26. Hodgkin Lymphoma
Henrik Hjalgrim, Mads Melbye, and Pagona Lagiou
27. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Karin Ekström Smedby, Mads Melbye, and Hans-Olov Adami
28. Leukemias
Eve Roman, Alexandra Smith, and Lorelei Mucci
Epilogue
Index
