Product Description: It is difficult to estimate the number of people around the world who work diligently to collect the data that are presented in Cancer Incidence in Five Continents. One thing is clear: it is a large number. Their combined work is summarized in the pages of this volume...read more

Product Description: The CD-ROM contains cancer incidence data from around 200 population-based cancer registries world-wide for the period 1953-1997 that were published in the eight volumes of the Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (CI5) series. The data are stored in the traditional form of number of cases by sex, five-year age group, and cancer (no individual records)...read more

Product Description: Our knowledge of the geographic and ethnic patterns of cancer in the African continent is limited. There is an almost entire lack of valid mortality statistics by cause, and few registries have published incidence data in readily accessible sources--for example, the Cancer Incidence in Five Continents series...read more

Product Description: The aim of the “Cancer Incidence in Five Continents” series is to present data on cancer incidence from reliable registries in a standardized way so that comparisons between geographical areas and ethnic groups may be made with confidence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Defines and describes proposed histological groups for 15 common cancers and gives the appropriate International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) morphology codes. Noting that the characteristics of certain cancers are better defined by a combination of tumor site and morphology, the report responds to the lack of a generally agreed scheme for subdividing cancers at a particular site into histological groups for use in clinical and epidemiological studies...read more

Product Description: A key part of IARC's mission is to provide accurate, high-quality data on the burden of cancer worldwide. For over 25 years, the Scientific Publications series has presented these data in print. The IARC CancerBases, launched in December 1996, now allow direct access to IARC's extensive cancer databases in an electronic format...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sets out a revised international standard system for the classification of childhood cancer based on morphology. The 1996 edition has been revised to reflect changes in the second edition of the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O-2) and the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) which introduced a new and expanded coding for cancer...read more