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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mack, Thomas M.
Otros Autores: Cockburn, Myles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.