Fig. 9.1 Comparison of prostate cancer incidence rates globally. Rates are age-adjusted for comparisons across countries and are presented per 100,000 in the population. Globocan 2012 Age-adjusted incidence rates have increased…
Fig. 11.1 Age incidence and mortality curves for breast cancer in the U.S. for African American women and non-Hispanic white women (SEER Research Data 1973–2012; Fast Stats: an interactive tool for…
Fig. 25.1 Age-specific incidence rates of pancreatic cancer among men in the U.S., 2008–2012, by race/ethnicity. Data are taken from the U.S. SEER Registry Fig. 25.2 Age-specific incidence rates of pancreatic 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
