Textbook of Cancer Epidemiology: Edition 3
Hans-Olov Adami · David J. Hunter · Pagona Lagiou · Lorelei Mucci
Jan 2018 · Oxford University Press
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"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.
About the author
Hans-Olov Adami, MD, Professor of Cancer Epidemiology and former Chairman of the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet and Professor of Epidemiology and former Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is currently Professor at the University of Oslo's Clinical Effectiveness Research Group. David J. Hunter, MBBS, is the Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Oxford and the Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention Emeritus at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Pagona Lagiou, MD, is Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, US. Lorelei Mucci, ScD, is Associate Professor of Cancer Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Leader of Cancer Epidemiology, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.
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