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In the International Classification of Diseases all malignant tumours of a specific site are usually classified into one group using one code number. This is generally done also in epidemiologic studies. It has been found, however, that the malignant tumours of most organs do not form a homogeneous group but are composed of many individual types which differ in their clinical course and epidemiology. For example, in the nodular sclerosing type of Hodgkin’s disease the age and sex distribution and the course of the disease are very different from those of the other histologic types of Hodgkin’s disease (Lukes et al., 1966, Franssila et al., 1967). This concurs with the hypothesis based on epidemiologic studies that Hodgkin’s disease is actually composed of two different diseases (e.g. MacMahon, 1966). It is also well known that adenocarcinoma of the lung does not show the same sex difference or the same correlation with smoking as epidermoid carcinoma.
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Franssila, K., Saxén, E. (1972). Histologic Classification as a Problem in the Epidemiology of Thyroid Cancer. In: Grundmann, E., Tulinius, H. (eds) Current Problems in the Epidemiology of Cancer and Lymphomas. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-41032-5_6
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