Advances in cancer epidemiology: understanding causal mechanisms and the evidence for implementing interventions.

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In a worldwide population of 6 billion, in the year 2000, approximately 10 million cancers were diagnosed, and there were an estimated 6.2 million cancer deaths. Whereas the universality of cancer incidence and mortality is established, the burden of cancer by type or organ site is distributed unequally between developing and industrialized nations. Populations in developing countries are disproportionately...

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• Cause of Death
• Cocarcinogenesis
• Cost of Illness
• Developing Countries
• Evidence-Based Medicine