- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introducing the history of epidemiology
- Chapter 2 Important concepts in epidemiology
- Chapter 3 Study design
- Chapter 4 Statistics in epidemiology
- Chapter 5 Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods
- Chapter 6 Questionnaires in epidemiology
- Chapter 7 Environment
- Chapter 8 Occupational epidemiology
- Chapter 9 Life course epidemiology
- Chapter 10 Pharmacoepidemiology
- Chapter 11 Nutritional epidemiology
- Chapter 12 Genetic epidemiology
- Chapter 13 Teaching molecular epidemiology
- Chapter 14 Social inequalities in health
- Chapter 15 Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom
- Chapter 16 Infectious disease epidemiology
- Chapter 17 Cancer epidemiology
- Chapter 18 Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology
- Chapter 19 Neurologic diseases
- Chapter 20 Reproductive epidemiology
- Chapter 21 Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology
- Chapter 22 Epidemiology of injuries
- Chapter 23 Dental epidemiology
- Chapter 24 Clinical epidemiology
- Chapter 25 Study of clustering and outbreaks
- Chapter 26 Medical databases
- Chapter 27 Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom
- Chapter 28 Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology
- Index
Cancer epidemiology
Cancer epidemiology
- Chapter:
- (p.315) Chapter 17 Cancer epidemiology
- Source:
- Teaching Epidemiology
- Author(s):
Pagona Lagiou
Dimitrios Trichopoulos
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Cancer epidemiology is an important topic for health professionals in clinical medicine and public health. Teaching of cancer epidemiology, however, presents considerable difficulties; some are related to the variable background of the students, while others are inherent to the topic itself. The goal of a fifteen-to-twenty-hour course in cancer epidemiology is to integrate simple principles of biology with epidemiologic characteristics and concepts, so that the discipline moves beyond biostatistics into the realm of biomedical sciences. In other words, the goal of cancer epidemiology is not only to describe the principal risk factors of various forms of cancer but to evaluate the compatibility of the risk profile of a particular cancer with alternative biologic hypotheses. In this chapter, an option for the structure of the course is presented which could be adjusted to accommodate the expertise and style of the instructor as well as the background and pace of the class.
Keywords: cancer epidemiology, teaching, cancer, epidemiology, course, risk factors
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introducing the history of epidemiology
- Chapter 2 Important concepts in epidemiology
- Chapter 3 Study design
- Chapter 4 Statistics in epidemiology
- Chapter 5 Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods
- Chapter 6 Questionnaires in epidemiology
- Chapter 7 Environment
- Chapter 8 Occupational epidemiology
- Chapter 9 Life course epidemiology
- Chapter 10 Pharmacoepidemiology
- Chapter 11 Nutritional epidemiology
- Chapter 12 Genetic epidemiology
- Chapter 13 Teaching molecular epidemiology
- Chapter 14 Social inequalities in health
- Chapter 15 Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom
- Chapter 16 Infectious disease epidemiology
- Chapter 17 Cancer epidemiology
- Chapter 18 Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology
- Chapter 19 Neurologic diseases
- Chapter 20 Reproductive epidemiology
- Chapter 21 Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology
- Chapter 22 Epidemiology of injuries
- Chapter 23 Dental epidemiology
- Chapter 24 Clinical epidemiology
- Chapter 25 Study of clustering and outbreaks
- Chapter 26 Medical databases
- Chapter 27 Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom
- Chapter 28 Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology
- Index