Textbook of Cancer Epidemiology

<strong>Comprehensive and comprehensible but also encouraging -- informed by the hope and belief that informed its creation. -</strong><strong><em>Cancer</em></strong><strong> </strong> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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.<br>