Division of Cancer of Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20852 [B-T. J., W.-H. C., J. F. F.]; Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Health Service Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 [G. Y.]; and Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai 200032, People’s Republic of China [F. J., ...

Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit and Cancer Research UK Genotyping Facility, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Cancer Research UK Molecular Pharmacology Unit, Biomedical Research Centre, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, United Kingdom; and Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, National Public He...

*Correspondence to: Dr M. P. Coleman, Cancer and Public Health Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel: +44-20-7927-2478; Fax: +44-20-7436-4230; E-mail: [email protected] †Members of the EUROCARE Working Group are listed in the Acknowledgements. Cancer and Public Health Unit, Departmen...

Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Department of Surgery, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. Malmö Diet and Cancer Study, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece. Department of community medicine, UiT the Norwegian Arctic University, Tromsø, No...

Background: is the third cause of death. The present study aimed at providing the incidence rates (crude and agestandardized)of different types of cancers in Sistan and Baluchestan province (Southeastern of Iran).Cancer is the second leading cause of death in developing countries. In Iran, cancerMethodsRegistry Center of Health Heputy for Sistan and Baluchestan province. Common cancers weredefi...

a Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., b Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Conn., c Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and d Division of Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, N.Y., USA Publish...

  Rectal cancer is the second most common cancer in large intestine. The prevalence and the number of young patients diagnosed with rectal cancer have made it as one of the major health problems in the world. With regard to the improved access to and use of modern screening tools, a number of new cases are diagnosed each year. Considering the location of the rectum and its adjacent organs, ma...

Background Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the United States, with over 40,000 cases diagnosed each year, typically in the postmenopausal women. 25% of cases affect premenopausal women. 14% of endometrial cancers are diagnosed in women younger than 45 years old. 5% of these tumors are diagnosed in women younger than 40 years old. In this talk the learning objecti...

National Institute of Occupational Health, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [N. R. J., H. W., U. V.]; Institute of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark [B. A. N.]; Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, The Danish Cancer Society, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [A. O., A. T.]; and Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aalborg Hospital and Aarhus University Hospital, and Department o...

Molecular epidemiology in cancer research grew from the field of chemical carcinogenesis and the use biomarkers for environmental exposures, with incorporation of principles from early pharmacogenetics. Over the years, molecular epidemiology has become extremely complex, with studies evaluating associations between cancer risk and prognosis and numerous markers of susceptibility, exposure and e...