Textbook of Cancer Epidemiology

"Comprehensive and comprehensible, but also encouraging -- informed by the hope and belief that informed its creation." -Cancer

Amid sweeping advances in the science and treatment of cancer, the TEXTBOOK OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY offers students and professionals a definitive, systematic resource for understanding the factors affecting all types of human cancer.

This fully updated new edition offers an overview of epidemiology's key concepts and methods as they relate to cancer (including the emerging potential of biomarkers) as well as site-specific chapters on individual cancers' natural history, pathology, descriptive epidemiology, and etiology. Taken together, these chapters forge connections between established science and the ongoing evolution of this dynamic field.

Crisply and concisely written by an assembly of internationally recognized researchers, the TEXTBOOK OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY offers a superlative introduction to the subject's consensuses and controversies for those embarking on their careers and a ready reference for seasoned professionals.

Hans-Olov Adami, MD, Professor of Cancer Epidemiology and former Chairman of the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet and Professor of Epidemiology and former Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is currently Professor at the University of Oslo's Clinical Effectiveness Research Group.

David J. Hunter, MBBS, is the Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Oxford and the Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention Emeritus at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Pagona Lagiou, MD, is Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, US.

Lorelei Mucci, ScD, is Associate Professor of Cancer Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Leader of Cancer Epidemiology, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.

Dedication

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

About the Editors

Contributors

Part I

1. Accomplishments in Cancer Epidemiology
Brian MacMahon

2. Measures and estimates of cancer burden
Paolo Boffetta, Dana Hashim, and Pagona Lagiou

3. The Origins of Cancer
Jeffrey Ecsedy and David J. Hunter

4. Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer
Christopher Haiman and David J. Hunter

5. Biomarkers in Cancer Epidemiology
Paolo Boffetta and Lorelei Mucci

6. Concepts in Cancer Epidemiology and Etiology
Pagona Lagiou, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, and Lorelei Mucci

Part II

7. Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer
Jennifer Rider, Paul Brennan, and Pagona Lagiou

8. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Ellen T. Chang and Hans-Olov Adami

9. Esophageal Cancer
Christian C. Abnet, Olof Nyrén, and Hans-Olov Adami

10. Stomach Cancer
Wemin Ye, Olof Nyrén, and Hans-Olov Adami

11. Colorectal Cancer
Nana Keum, Kana Wu, Edward Giovannucci, and David J. Hunter

12. Cancer of the Liver and Biliary Tract
Christina Bamia, Sherri Stuver, and Lorelei Mucci

13. Pancreatic Cancer
Vassiliki Benetou, Anders Ekbom, and Lorelei Mucci

14. Cancer of the Lung, Larynx, and Pleura
Jyoti Malhotra, Paolo Boffetta, and Lorelei Mucci

15. Skin Cancer
Adèle Green, Catherine Olsen, and David J. Hunter

16. Breast Cancer
Rulla Tamimi, Susan Hankinson, and Pagona Lagiou

17. Cervical Cancer
Karin Sundström, Joakim Dillner, and Hans-Olov Adami

18. Endometrial Cancer
Marta Crous-Bou, Immaculata De Vivo, and Pagona Lagiou

19. Ovarian Cancer
Penelope Webb, Susan Jordan, and David J. Hunter

20. Prostate Cancer
Kathryn M. Wilson and Lorelei Mucci

21. Testicular Cancer
Lorenzo Richiardi, Giovenale Moirano, and Pagona Lagiou

22. Urinary Bladder Cancer
Jonine Figueroa, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Manolis Kogevinas, and Lorelei Mucci

23. Kidney Cancer
Xuehong Zhang, Eunyoung Cho, and Hans-Olov Adami

24. Brain Cancer
Dominique Michaud, David Savitz, and Lorelei Mucci

25. Thyroid Cancer
Carlo La Vecchia, Cristina Bosetti,and Hans-Olov Adami

26. Hodgkin Lymphoma
Henrik Hjalgrim, Mads Melbye, and Pagona Lagiou

27. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Karin Ekström Smedby, Mads Melbye, and Hans-Olov Adami

28. Leukemias
Eve Roman, Alexandra Smith, and Lorelei Mucci

Epilogue

Index