Product Description: This book is a collection of discussions and presentations made by leading experts during a workshop to review the results of recent empirical studies on the effectiveness of chemopreventive agents on the reduction of cancer risk...read more

Product Description: Reviews the design and, where available, findings of 91 phase 3 studies using the randomized intervention trial design to evaluate the efficacy of measures for cancer prevention. By presenting and comparing the main features of these studies, the author aims to provide an early alert to methodological problems while also yielding clues about fruitful lines of inquiry...read more

Product Description: Migrant populations are of special interest to the cancer epidemiologist since they permit comparisons of the risk of cancer in populations of similar genetic background living in different environments. The differences in risk observed, and the rapidity with which they develop after migration, provide valuable clues to their relative importance of environmental and genetic factors in the etiology of different cancers...read more