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“The Great Debate”: Smoking, Lung Cancer, and Cancer Epidemiology

Author(s) -

Gerry Hill,

W J Millar,

J. Connelly

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

canadian journal of health history

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 2371-0179

pISSN - 0823-2105

DOI - 10.3138/cbmh.20.2.367

Subject(s) - epidemiology , lung cancer , rigour , medicine , environmental health , epidemiology of cancer , cancer , demography , pathology , sociology , philosophy , epistemology , breast cancer

During the first decades of the 20th century the lung cancer death rate increased sharply in developed countries, including Canada. An association with cigarette smoking was suspected. Between 1950 and 1960 many epidemiological studies confirmed this association. The validity of these studies was attacked fiercely by some renowned statisticians. The resulting debate sharpened the methodological and analytical rigour of epidemiological studies. Epidemiology became an indispensable tool in cancer prevention.

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