A Quick Guide to Cancer Epidemiology

✍ Scribed by Paolo Boffetta, Stefania Boccia, Carlo La Vecchia (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 110
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Cancer Research
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Quick Guide to Cancer Epidemiology is an ideal addition to Springer Briefs in Cancer Research. The Brief provides core concepts in cancer epidemiology and also gives a snapshot of the epidemiology of seventeen human cancers. The Brief aims to provide-with quantitative focus-estimates of the global burden of neoplasms, of recent and likely future trends, distribution, causes and strategies for prevention for major groups of cancers. Finally, the Brief will give an overview of severals factors that cause cancer including dietary factors, tobacco smoking, obesity and alcohol consumption.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Principles of Primary and Secondary Cancer Prevention....Pages 7-10
The Global Burden of Neoplasms....Pages 11-14
Distribution, Causes and Prevention of Individual Neoplasms....Pages 15-75
Overview of the Major Causes of Human Cancer....Pages 77-88
Conclusions....Pages 89-90
Back Matter....Pages 91-101

✦ Subjects

Cancer Research; Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine general