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Cancer Epidemiology: Principles and Methods

Edited by I. Dos Santos Silva

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Cover Page, Contents, Foreword, About this book

1. Introduction to cancer epidemiology

2. Measurement of exposures

3. Describing and presenting data

4. Measures of occurrence of disease and other health-related events

5. Overview of study designs

6. Evaluating the role of chance

7. Intervention trials

8. Cohort studies

9. Case-control studies

10. Cross-sectional surveys

11. Studies based on routine data

12. Introduction to survival analysis

13. Interpretation of epidemiological studies

14. Dealing with confounding in the analysis

15. Size of a study

16. Cancer prevention

17. The role of cancer registries

18. Designing, planning and conducting epidemiological research

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