Core Concepts in Health, 9/e

Paul M. Insel, Stanford University School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University School of Medicine

Cancer

Vital Statistics Links

Figure 16-1 (See p. 458 in your text.)
Percent of all cancer deaths linked to risk factors

The statistics in the text were taken from the http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/Canprevent/lead-in.html Harvard Report on Cancer Prevention, Volume I: Causes of Human Cancer, the full text of which is available online.

More information on risk factors available from the http://www.cancer.org American Cancer Society and the http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/genetics_prevention.html National Cancer Institute CancerNet: Genetics, Causes, Risk Factors, Prevention page.

Figure 16-3 (See p. 460 in your text.)
Cancer cases and deaths by site and sex

Statistics on cancer cases and deaths are available from the following sites:

http://www.cancer.org/statistics American Cancer Society: Cancer Facts and Figures (updated every year)

http://www-seer.ims.nci.nih.gov National Cancer Institute: Cancer Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results

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