IngentaConnect On the Epidemiology of Cancer

Author: Greenwood, Major

Source: The Challenge of Epidemiology: Issues and Selected Readings, The Challenge of Epidemiology: Issues and Selected Readings , pp. 112-121(10)

Publisher: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Abstract:

This is a section of the book The Challenge of Epidemiology: Issues and Selected Readings. Edited by four eminent epidemiologists, this book consolidates, for the first time, a core of landmark articles on the evolution, scope and limitations, uses, and prospects of epidemiology. An outstanding feature of the book is the inclusion of the editors' assessments of the realm of epidemiology, where it is and where it should be going. It represents a useful tool for both students and practicing professionals and provides a much-needed frame of reference for reorienting the practice of epidemiology. The book is a collection of 91 articles, grouped in five parts. This article provides a statistical point of view of the importance of cancer in society during the early 1900s due to its increasing spread of the disease as well as its high mortality rate. A comparison of mortality rates of cancer in relations to sex, age, social classes and "inaccessible" or "accessible" sites of cancer are presented in tables and discussed in the article.

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