The purpose of this book is to examine the etiology of cancer in large human populations using mathematical models developed from an inter-disciplinary perspective of the population epidemiological, biodemographic, genetic and physiological basis of the mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression. In addition an investigation of how the basic mechanism of tumor initiation relates to general processes of senescence and to other major chronic diseases (e.g., heart disease and stroke) will be conducted.
| ISBN: | 9780387781921 |
| Publication date: | 18th December 2008 |
| Author: | Kenneth G Manton, Igor Akushevich, Julia Kravchenko |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer New York |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 455 pages |
| Series: | Statistics for Biology and Health |
| Genres: |
Probability and statistics Computational biology / bioinformatics Population and demography Epidemiology and Medical statistics Oncology |