Neuroendocrine tumors are most often located in the intestine and lungs but they can arise from other areas of the body. Limited data is available on epidemiology and clinical patterns of neuroendocrine tumors in Iran. We analyzed medical records of 34 patients from 2 cancer centers (Emam Khomeini hospital and Omid Charity Cancer Center) in west Azarbaijan province of Iran with neuroendocrine t...

1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 2 Division of Epidemiology and Biometrics, School of Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 3 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 4 STUK-Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki, Finland. 5 Tampere School of Public Health, University o...

1Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Unit of Analytical Epidemiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy; 2Department of Cancer Epidemiology, National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; 3Amsterdam Cancer Registry, Amsterdam; The Netherlands; 4Girona Cancer Registry, Girona, Spain; 5Côte D...

Group Health, Center for Health Studies, Seattle, Washington; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine and Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, Kentucky; Departm...

The concept of translational cancer epidemiology has evolved since its early beginnings in 1937 with the establishment of the National Cancer Institute. Conceptual models of cancer control research have also evolved over the last 30 years, to the point wherewe now have 4 stages of translational research (T0–T4). The current review by Lam et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2015;181(7):451–458) covers cance...