Cover Page, Contents, Foreword, About this book - IARC
Cover Page, Contents, Foreword, About this book - IARC
Cover Page, Contents, Foreword, About this book - IARC
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<strong>Contents</strong><br />
<strong>Foreword</strong><br />
<strong>About</strong> <strong>this</strong> <strong>book</strong><br />
vii<br />
ix<br />
1 Introduction to cancer epidemiology 1<br />
2 Measurement of exposures and outcomes 11<br />
3 Describing and presenting data 45<br />
4 Measures of occurrence of disease and other 57<br />
health-related events<br />
5 Overview of study designs 83<br />
6 Evaluating the role of chance 103<br />
7 Intervention trials 135<br />
8 Cohort studies 165<br />
9 Case-control studies 189<br />
10 Cross-sectional surveys 213<br />
11 Studies based on routine data 231<br />
12 Introduction to survival analysis 263<br />
13 Interpretation of epidemiological studies 277<br />
14 Dealing with confounding in the analysis 305<br />
15 Size of a study 333<br />
16 Cancer prevention 355<br />
17 The role of cancer registries 385<br />
18 Designing, planning and conducting epidemiological research 405<br />
References 427<br />
Subject index 437<br />
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