A Quick Guide to Cancer Epidemiology

• Main Authors: Boffetta, Paolo (Author), Boccia, Stefania (Author), La Vecchia, Carlo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Cancer Research
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Biomedicine general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Principles of primary and secondary cancer prevention
• The global burden of neoplasms
• Distribution, causes and prevention of individual neoplasms
• Overview of the causes of human cancer
• Conclusions
• References
• Index.