Doctoral Programme Public Health - Cancer Epidemiology

Studium & Lehre - Doctoral Programme Public Health - Epidemiology - Cancer Epidemiology

Doctoral Programme Public Health
Cancer Epidemiology

The following pages want to familiarize you with the main concepts and numbers in Cancer Epidemiology. With the help of these pages you will reach the defined learning goals.

Once inside, you can also download the contents in an abridged written form (in the format of a *.pdf).

In detail you will find the following chapters:

What is cancer
   Risk factors
   Carcinogens
What are epidemiological measures and how are they calculated
   Absolute and relative numbers, Rates
   Incidence
   Prevalence
   Mortality
   Case fatality
   Standardization
What is the magnitude of cancer
   worldwide
   in Austria

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