Developing clues to environmental cancer: a stepwise approach with the use of cancer mortality data. | Zendy

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Developing clues to environmental cancer: a stepwise approach with the use of cancer mortality data.

Author(s) -

W. J. Blot,

J F Fraumeni,

Thomas Mason,

Robert N. Hoover

Publication year - 1979

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.793253

Subject(s) - cancer , lung cancer , epidemiology , mortality rate , environmental health , etiology , epidemiology of cancer , medicine , demography , oncology , pathology , surgery , sociology , breast cancer

Clues to environmental determinants can often be derived from the patterns of mortality from cancer. This review focuses on the stepwise approach of using cancer mortality maps, supplemented by correlation studies linking mortality rates with demographic and industrial data at the county level, to generate hypotheses to cancer etiology which can then be pursued by analytical epidemiological studies. Advantages and limitations of this approach and its application in the study of lung cancer in the United States are described.

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