Recent advances in quantitative methods in cancer and human health risk assessment /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Edler, Lutz, 1945-, Kitsos, Christos Par., 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2005]
Series:Wiley series in probability and statistics.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Cancer and human health risk assessment
  • Principles of cancer risk assessment : the risk assessment paradigm
  • The risk assessment paradigm
  • Biological aspects of carcinogenesis
  • Molecular epidemiology in cancer research
  • Genetic polymorphisms in metabolising enzymes as lung cancer risk factors
  • Biological carcinogenesis : theories and models
  • Biological and mathematical aspects of multistage carcinogenesis
  • Risk assessment and chemical and radiation hormesis : a short commentary and bibliographic review
  • Modeling for cancer risk assessment
  • Modeling exposure and target organ concentrations
  • Stochastic carcinogenesis models
  • A unified modeling approach : from exposure to disease endpoint
  • Modeling lung cancer screening
  • Optimal regimens of cancer screening
  • experiments
  • Statistical approaches for carcinogenesis studies
  • Analysis of survival data with non-proportional hazards and crossings of survival functions
  • Dose-response modeling
  • Benchmark dose approach
  • Uncertainty analysis : the Bayesian approach
  • Optimal designs for bioassays in carcinogenesis
  • Specific modeling approaches for health risk assessment
  • Cancer risk assessment for mixtures
  • Designs and models for mixtures : assessing cumulative risk
  • Estimating the natural history of breast cancer from bivariate data on age and tumor size at diagnosis
  • Case studies
  • - Statistical issues in the search for biomarkers of colorectal cancer using microarray experiments
  • Optimal experimental designs for prediction of morbidity after lung resection
  • Logistic regression methods and their implementation
  • The use of the logistic regression, discriminant analysis and classification trees in predicting persisting remission in childhood leukemia
  • Non-melanoma skin and lung cancer incidence in relation to arsenic exposure : 20 years of observation
  • Thyroid cancer incidence rates in Zaragoza