Epidemiology of Lung Cancer
Fig. 19.1 Lung cancer incidence and mortality worldwide from Ref. [59] In the U.S., lung cancer ranks second in estimated new cancer cases in men and women, after prostate and breast…
Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer
Fig. 21.1 Age-standardized incidence rates per 100,000 person-years. Rates were standardized to the World Standard Population. Data based on [4] CRC is rare under the age of 40, but incidence rates…
Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer
Primary tumor (T) TX Primary tumor cannot be assessed T0 No evidence of primary tumor Ta Noninvasive papillary carcinoma Tis Carcinoma in situ: “flat tumor” T1 Tumor invades subepithelial connective…
Epidemiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Fig. 23.1 a A comparison of age-standardized mortality rates (per 100,000) of HCC among men, across different countries. Data are taken from the Globocan 2012 database. b A comparison of age-standardized…
Cancer Screening
Fig. 6.1 The preclinical phase in cancer screening 6.2.2 Cancer Prevalence Another key attribute for screening is a cancer’s prevalence, particularly in its preclinical phase [4]. Prevalence is a function of…
Bioinformatic Analysis of Epidemiological and Pathological Data
Fig. 8.1 An example of MA-plots for one microarray sample with the raw (left) and normalized (right) expression values. Red lines show LOWESS smoothing curves, blue lines correspond to zero log-fold…
Introduction to Cancer Epidemiology
Fig. 5.1 John Snow Pub, Broadwick Road, London, UK The scope of epidemiology is much broader than the study of epidemics; it also involves the study of causal factors for all…
The Intersection of Epidemiology and Pathology
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Massimo Loda, Lorelei A. Mucci, Megan L. Mittelstadt, Mieke Van Hemelrijck and Maura Bríd Cotter (eds.)Pathology and Epidemiology of Cancer10.1007/978-3-319-35153-7_1 1. The Intersection of Epidemiology and Pathology Megan L. Mittelstadt1 , Edward L. Giovannucci2 , Lorelei A. Mucci3 and Massimo Loda4 (1)…
Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer
Fig. 7.1 The left table shows six nucleotides from five individuals; three of these nucleotides vary and are therefore SNPs. From the right table, we can see that the two SNPs…
Tumor-Like Lesions of the Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct
Fig. 5.1 Focal nodular hyperplasia. (a) Mass magin is clear and the fibrous scar can be seen in the center of the lesion; (b) The color of the mass is…
