Cancer Epidemiology: Shortcomings and Possibilities
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Cancer epidemiology: shortcomings and possibilities.
The development of the concepts of initiators and promoters in carcinogenesis necessitates deliberations of evidence from human cancer epidemiology. Recent arguments in favor of mortality data as a more reliable indicator of trends in cancer incidence than morbidity data collected from cancer registries are disputed. Inconsistency in the use of data is pointed out. Comparisons of data from canc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3429564