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Cancers in the urban environment : patterns of malignant disease in Los Angeles County and its neighborhoods /
This volume, the first of its kind ever, is designed to provide both laypersons and professionals with a detailed description of the occurrence of each common form of cancer in the ethnically, socially, and environmentally complex milieu of a modern urban complex. The place is Los Angeles County, an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Elsevier Academic Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction for scientists
- Introduction for laypersons
- What cancers are
- Environmental and other causes of cancer
- Resources used to detect local increases in risk
- Methods used to detect local increases in risk
- Errors due to chance
- Comparison between "apples" and "oranges"
- Failure to detect local increases in risk
- Investigating a lead
- Guide to the figures
- Interpretation
- Scientific and technical notes
- Oropharyngeal carcinoma
- Salivary gland malignancies
- Squamous carcinoma of the esophagus/gastric cardia
- Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus/gastric cardia
- Adenocarcinoma of the (lower) stomach
- Carcinoma of the small intestine
- Colon carcinoma, total (both upper and sigmoid)
- Carcinoma of the upper colon
- Carcinoma of the sigmoid colon
- Carcinoma of the rectum
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Gallbladder carcinoma
- Biliary tract carcinoma
- Pancreas carcinoma
- Carcinoma of the nose/sinuses
- Carcinoma of the larynx
- Lung and bronchus carcinoma, total (all types)
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung and bronchus
- Large cell carcinoma of the lung and bronchus
- Small cell carcinoma of the lung and bronchus
- Adenocarcinoma of the lung and bronchus
- Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma of the lung and bronchus
- Undifferentiated carcinoma of the lung and bronchus
- Carcinoma of the lung and bronchus, not otherwise classified
- Mesothelioma
- Soft tissue sarcoma
- Angiosarcoma
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Ewing's sarcoma
- Malignant chordoma
- Malignant melanoma
- Breast carcinoma
- Squamous cervix carcinoma (invasive)
- Endometrial (uterine corpus) carcinoma
- Epithelial carcinoma of the ovary
- Germ cell malignancies
- Prostate carcinoma
- Anogenital adenocarcinoma
- Anogenital squamous carcinoma
- Mixed cell genital tumors
- Transitional cell (non-squamous) bladder carcinoma
- Squamous bladder carcinoma
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Wilms tumor (nephroblastoma)
- Retinoblastoma
- Brain malignancies (gliomas)
- Spinal cord malignancies
- Neurolemoma (nerve sheath malignancy)
- Neuroblastoma
- Malignant meningioma
- Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid
- Follicular carcinoma of the thyroid
- Other carcinoma of the thyroid
- Pituitary carcinoma
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia
- Carcinoma of the thymus
- Mixed cellularity Hodgkin lymphoma
- Nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma
- Other Hodgkin lymphoma
- All non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)
- Follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Diffuse small lymphocytic or plasmacytic B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Diffuse mixed B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- High-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Maltoma non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Other non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Central nervous system non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)
- Stomach non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)
- Other gastrointestinal non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)
- Lymph node/other organ non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)
- Multiple myeloma
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- Hairy cell leukemia
- Acute non-lymphocytic leukemia
- Chronic myelocytic leukemia
- Other leukemias
- All malignancies of infants/toddlers
- All malignancies of older children
- All malignancies of young adults
- All malignancies of older adults
- All malignancies
- Overall summary.