Introduction: As one of the most common cancers among head and neck malignancies, cancer of the oral cavity probably has some variations in countries with a high prevalence of esophageal cancer.  Materials and Methods: Patients with oral cavity cancer who were treated at two tertiary referral centers from January 1999 to January 2009 were included in this study. In addition to demographic data,...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and relative frequency of oral and pharyngeal cancers in Kermanshah, Iran, from March 1993 until March 2006.METHODS: The data used in this epidemiologic study were extracted directly from pathology records registered in 12 (all) public and private pathology centers of Kermanshah province during the 13-year study period. Th...

Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics [D. S. M., D. A.] and Center for Cancer Research [T. J. H., P. R. T.], National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20852; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 [T. J. H.]; and Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Issue, Helsinki, Finland [P. P., G. A.,...

Molecular epidemiology refers to the incorporation of molecular techniques in epidemiological studies. There are different biomarkers in cancer research used for molecular epidemiology including markers of exposure, markers of dose, susceptibility, treatment response, prognosis, altered structure/function and cancer type. Selected markers, especially those of exposure and susceptibility, are de...

1 International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. 2 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. 3 Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark. 4 Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway. 5 Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. 6 Depa...

An International Symposium on Integrative Molecular Cancer Epidemiology took place in Lyon, France, on 3-5 July 2008. The Symposium focused on aetiological and mechanistic aspects of molecular and genetic cancer epidemiology research and was divided into the following three sections: Molecular epidemiology-application of novel molecular markers to cancer epidemiology.Genomic epidemiology in the...

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland; Information Management Services, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, National Public Health In...

1 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Department of Clinical Immunology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark 5 Department of Medicine...

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland; Information Management Services, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, National Public Health In...