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…
ONCOLOGY
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…
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…
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)…
Radiation Dermatitis
, Ahmad Ameri1 and Mona Malekzadeh2 (1) Department of Clinical Oncology, Imam Hossein Educational Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Shahid Madani Street, Tehran, Iran (2) Department of Radiotherapy and…
Radiation Pneumonitis
, Ahmad Ameri1 and Mona Malekzadeh2 (1) Department of Clinical Oncology, Imam Hossein Educational Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Shahid Madani Street, Tehran, Iran (2) Department of Radiotherapy and…
Loss of Taste
, Ahmad Ameri1 and Mona Malekzadeh2 (1) Department of Clinical Oncology, Imam Hossein Educational Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Shahid Madani Street, Tehran, Iran (2) Department of Radiotherapy and…
Radiation-Induced Nausea and Vomiting (RINV)
, Ahmad Ameri1 and Mona Malekzadeh2 (1) Department of Clinical Oncology, Imam Hossein Educational Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Shahid Madani Street, Tehran, Iran (2) Department of Radiotherapy and…
Laryngeal Edema
, Ahmad Ameri1 and Mona Malekzadeh2 (1) Department of Clinical Oncology, Imam Hossein Educational Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Shahid Madani Street, Tehran, Iran (2) Department of Radiotherapy and…
