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: For the first time, comprehensive cancer survival data are published from developing countries, 10 populations in total from, Costa Rica, Cuba, China, India, the Philippines and Thailand. These data allow valid comparisons to be made with data from Europe and North America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has a long experience in the compilation and analysis of data on the incidence of cancer in different parts of the world. This activity has been extended by the publication of the present volume, which brings together information on the incidence of cancer in children from over fifty countries. It represents the most extensive collection of such data ever published. The data are presented in a readily accessible format for making useful comparisons. A special classification system is employed, based upon the cellular origin of the tumors. This is more relevant than the traditional classification by anatomical site, since it is generally acknowledged that genetic susceptibility of particular cell types plays a more important role in the etiology of childhood cancers than in adults. The geographic and ethnic variations in the risk of different cancers are an invaluable resource for workers interested in formulating and confirming hypotheses concerning the causes of childhood cancer. (view table of contents)

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: 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

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: 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

Product Description: The "Cancer Incidence in Five Continents" series presents data on cancer incidence in a standardized format for every area in the world from which it is possible to obtain reliable figures. Volume V, published in 1987, included data from population based cancer registries covering 137 populations in 36 countries...read more

Product Description: This book examines the current state of evidence relating to the effectiveness of primary prevention measures. The identification of environmental and lifestyle factors as causes of cancer means that the theoretical basis for the prevention of cancer is well established...read more

Product Description: Knowledge of the geographical distribution of cancer remains incomplete. The preferred measures of occurrence are incidence and mortality rates, but in countries where this information is unobtainable alternative sources of data must be found...read more

Product Description: This very original book shows that cancer registries can and should be used in the planning and evaluation of cancer control programs, with particular emphasis on the search for epidemiological risk factors, the provision of screening and early detection, therapy of established disease, and rehabilitation...read more