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Cancer Mapping

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Peter Boyle

    1. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

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  2. Calum S. Muir

    1. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

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  3. Ekkehard Grundmann

    1. Gerhard Domagk-Institut für Pathologie, Münster, Germany

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Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research (RECENTCANCER, volume 114)

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. General Aspects and Techniques of Mapping

    1. Historical Evolution of Disease Mapping in General and Specifically of Cancer Mapping

      • G. M. Howe
      Pages 1-21

    2. Problems of Cancer Mapping

      • Y. Verhasselt
      Pages 22-27

    3. Availability and Completeness of Cancer Registration Worldwide

      • K. Shanmugaratnam
      Pages 28-33

    4. Cancer Morbidity Atlas of the Saarland: An Outline of the Model Project for the Analysis of Health and Environmental Data in the Saarland

      • J. Grüger, T. Schäfer
      Pages 34-40

    5. Relative Value of Incidence and Mortality Data in Cancer Research

      • P. Boyle
      Pages 41-63

    6. Methods of Age Adjustment

      • J. Wahrendorf
      Pages 64-69

    7. Current Status of Cancer Registration in Europe

      • H. Tulinius
      Pages 70-74

    8. Current Status of Cancer Registration in the Federal Republic of Germany and Prospects for Further Development

      • G. Dhom
      Pages 75-82

    9. Analysis of Spatial Aggregation

      • M. Smans
      Pages 83-86

    10. Role of Advanced Statistical Techniques in Cancer Mapping

      • J. Kaldor, D. Clayton
      Pages 87-98

    11. Danish Cancer Registry 1942–1980: Some Aspects of Cancer Registration

      • J. Clemmesen
      Pages 99-102

  3. Modern Cancer Atlases

    1. Recent Cancer Atlas of the Federal Republic of Germany

      • G. Wagner
      Pages 103-114

    2. Cancer Mapping as an Epidemiologic Research Resource in China

      • Li Jun-Yao
      Pages 115-136

    3. Scottish Cancer Incidence Atlas 1985

      • I. Kemp
      Pages 137-142

    4. Italian Atlas of Cancer Mortality

      • C. Cislaghi, A. Decarli, C. La Vecchia, G. Mezzanotte, M. Smans
      Pages 143-153

    5. Geographical Patterns of Cancer Mortality in Spain

      • M. Errezola, G. López-Abente, A. Escolar
      Pages 154-162

    6. Cancer Mortality Statistics: Availability and Quality Aspects of Mortality Data Worldwide

      • H. Hansluwka
      Pages 163-175

    7. Geographical Distribution of Cancer in Poland

      • W. Zatonski, J. Tyczynski, N. Becker
      Pages 176-195

    8. The New United States Cancer Atlas

      • Linda Williams Pickle, T. J. Mason, J. F. Fraumeni Jr.
      Pages 196-207
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About this book

The preceding decade has seen the production of many cancer at­ lases. As with other techniques of descriptive epidemiology, these atlases have proved valuable in identifying areas for further re­ sear~h employing the methods of analytical epidemiology. How­ ever, the various cancer atlases produceq to date have failed to pro­ vide a common format of presentation, which has limited their comparability and frustrated in a large measure any attempt to compare risks across national boundaries, boundaries which in terms of environmental exposures may have little meaning. In this volume, many features of cancer atlases are presented and there are discussions on the areas where moves towards standardization could greatly increase the utility of the finished product. In contrast to topographic maps, i. e., representations of natural and man-made features on the surface of the earth, thematic maps concentrate on displaying the geographical occurrence and varia­ tion of a single phenomenon - the "theme" of the map. The link between thematic and base mapping is rather strong as the themat­ ic information to be depicted is of greater value if displayed on an accurate base map. Further, the thematic map generally uses statis­ tical data which are frequently related to internal administrative boundaries for enumeration. The major reason for constructing a thematic map is to discover the spatial structure of the theme of the map and to then relate the structure to some aspects of the under­ lying environment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

    Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir

  • Gerhard Domagk-Institut für Pathologie, Münster, Germany

    Ekkehard Grundmann

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cancer Mapping

  • Editors: Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, Ekkehard Grundmann

  • Series Title: Recent Results in Cancer Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83651-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-83653-4Published: 05 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-83651-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0080-0015

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6767

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 277

  • Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Oncology, Pathology

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