Current Problems in the Epidemiology of Cancer and Lymphomas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Opening Remarks.
• General Problems.
• The World Health Organization’s Programme for the Histopathological Definition and Classification of Tumours.
• Investigation on the Epidemiological Significance of Detailed Cancer Data—Preliminary Results.
• Respiratory Tract.
• Multiplicity of Lung Tumour Classifications.
• The Significance of Asbestos in Tissue.
• Thyroid Gland.
• Histologic Classification as a Problem in the Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer.
• Leukemia and Thyroid Carcinoma Found among A-Bomb Survivors in Hiroshima.
• Alimentary Tract.
• Migrant Studies in Alimentary Tract Cancer.
• Histological Types of Gastric Cancer and its Relationship with Intestinal Metaplasia.
• Liver.
• Primary Carcinomas of the Liver in Hong Kong. Some Possible Aetiological Factors.
• Recent Techniques and Hypotheses in the Epidemiology of Liver Cancer.
• The Aflatoxins and Human Liver Cancer.
• Prostate.
• Latent Carcinoma of the Prostate.
• Mortality and Morbidity of Prostatic Carcinoma.
• The Incidence of Carcinoma of Prostate: An Epidemiological Survey.
• Other Genital Organs.
• Correlates of Histologic Differentiation of Carcinoma of the Penis Results from a Five Year Survey in Uganda, 1964—1968.
• Cervical Carcinogenesis: An Epidemiologic Model Adaptable to Control Pro gram.
• Breast.
• Hormones in the Aetiology and Clinical Course of Breast Cancer.
• The Ovarian Etiology of Human Breast Cancer.
• Lymphomas.
• Primary Intestinal Lymphoma: Clinical Manifestations and Possible Effect of Environmental Factors.
• Detection and Assessment of Case Clustering in Burkitt’s Lymphoma and Hodgkin’s Disease.
• Epidemiologic and Immunologic Considerations on the Pathogenesis of Burkitt’s Tumor.
• Etiology of Burkitt’s Lymphoma.
• Epidemics of Hodgkin’s Disease.
• Hodgkin’s Disease in Childhood—AnEpidemiological Study in Northern Ger many.