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“Epidemiology” has been defined as the use of knowledge on the frequency and distribution of disease to search for determinants, the removal of which would result in a diminution in the frequency of the disease in question. It is customary to consider cancer epidemiology as comprising three major but closely linked areas: descriptive epidemiology, analytical epidemiology and operational epidemiology.
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Muir, C.S., Gran, MC. (1989). Cancer Epidemiology. In: Veronesi, U., Arnesjø, B., Burn, I., Denis, L., Mazzeo, F. (eds) Surgical Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72646-0_4
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