Cancer statistics for Hispanics/Latinos, 2015

Cancer statistics, 2015.

Each year the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths that will occur in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival. Incidence data were collected by the National Cancer Institute (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results [SEER] Program), the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...

Cancer statistics in China, 2015.

With increasing incidence and mortality, cancer is the leading cause of death in China and is a major public health problem. Because of China's massive population (1.37 billion), previous national incidence and mortality estimates have been limited to small samples of the population using data from the 1990s or based on a specific year. With high-quality data from an additional number of popula...

Statistics for dental researcher, Part 2: Descriptive statistics

Descriptive statistics is the process of summarizing gathered raw data from a research and creating useful statistics, which help the better understanding of data. According to the types of variables, which consist of qualitative and quantitative variables, some descriptive statistics have been introduced. Frequency percentage is used in qualitative data, and mean, median, mode, standard deviat...

Cancer Nanotechnolgy Plan 2015

European Cancer Congress 2015.

The European Cancer Congress, which attracts a range of European cancer groups, reflected intense interest in immunotherapies. we review key sessions, including three on the anti-programmed death-1 agent nivolumab, each in a different disease setting.