Cancer risk assessment /

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Imprint:Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis , 2005.
Description:xviii, 769 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5670915
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Other authors / contributors:Shields, Peter G.
ISBN:0824729846 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Carcinogenesis and molecular genetics / Diane L. Carlisle and Steven R. Patierno
  • 2. Epidemiological approaches to studying cancer I : study design, confounding variables, misclassification, and cancer clusters / Elizabeth Ward
  • 3. Epidemiological approaches to studying cancer II : molecular epidemiology / Loic Le Marchand
  • 4. Methods for genetic testing I : assessing mutations in cancers / Haruhiko Sugimura and Peter G. Shields
  • 5. Methods for genetic testing II : new methods for assessing acquired DNA damage in humans without cancer / Laura Gunn, Luoping Zhang and Martyn T. Smith
  • 6. Quantitative cancer risk assessment / John Whysner
  • 7. Cancer risk assessment I : how regulatory agencies determine what is a carcinogen / Jerry M. Rice
  • 8. Cancer risk assessment II : methods for determining cancer etiology : assessing risk in individuals / Peter G. Shields
  • 9. Cancer epidemiology / James R. Cerhan
  • 10. Cancer susceptibility genes and common gene variants that increase cancer risk / Ragnhild A. Lothe and Anne-Lise Borresen-Dale
  • 11. Chemical causes of cancer / Gary M. Williams and Alan M. Jeffrey
  • 12. Viral causes of cancer / Michie Hisada and Charles S. Rabkin
  • 13. Uncertainty in the estimation of radiation-related cancer risk / Charles E. Land
  • 14. Occupational cancer / Robert J. McCunney and Lee Okurowski
  • 15. Quantification of occupational and environmental exposures in epidemiological studies / Mustafa Dosemeci
  • 16. Cancer risk for tobacco and alcohol use / Peter G. Shields
  • 17. Hormones and cancer / Heather Spencer Feigelson and Roberta McKean-Cowdin
  • 18. Cancer in multiracial and multiethnic populations / Carrie P. Hunter
  • 19. Respiratory tract cancer / Aage Haugen
  • 20. Head and neck cancers / Qingyi Wei, Hongbing Shen, Margaret R. Spitz, Erich M. Sturgis and Peter G. Shields
  • 21. Breast cancer / Christine B. Ambrosone, Kristen B. Moysich and Helena Furberg
  • 22. Gynecological cancer - ovarian, endometrial, cervical / Kala Visvanathan and Kathy J. Helzlsouer
  • 23. The natural history of esophageal cancer / Philippe Taniere, Ruggero Montesano and Pierre Hainaut
  • 24. Liver cancer : risk factors and prevention / Christopher Loffredo and Christina Frank
  • 25. Brain cancer / Randa El-Zein, Yuri Minn, Margaret Wrensch and Melissa L. Bondy
  • 26. New perspectives on the epidemiology of hematological malignancies and related disorders / Martha S. Linet, Susan S. Devesa and Gareth J. Morgan
  • 27. Bladder cancers / Paolo Vineis
  • 28. Molecular and biochemical approaches to the etiology of prostate cancer / Richard B. Hayes.