Cancer Epidemiology: Principles and Methods

Cancer Epidemiology: Principles and Methods

IARC Nonserial Publication<BR
Edited by I. Dos Santos Silva<BR
This textbook gives a basic introduction to cancer epidemiology.
Chapters include: Describing and presenting data, Measures of occurrence of disease and of other health-related events, Overview of study designs, Evaluating the role of chance, Intervention trials, Cohort studies, Case-control studies, Cross-sectional surveys,
Routine data-based studies, Introduction to survival analysis, Interpretation of epidemiological studies, How to deal with confounding, Size of a study, Cancer control and prevention, The role of cancer registries, and Planning and conducting epidemiological studies.