This course applies and integrates the principles and tools of epidemiology to the study of cancer. The course includes discussions of the burden of various kinds of cancer across the United States and the world by age, gender, and race/ethnicity, the underlying biology behind the development of cancer in humans, cancer surveillance, and the epidemiology of various types of cancer by cancer site such as breast, lung, and colorectal cancers. The course also examines the major risk factors of cancer such as smoking, alcohol use, endogenous and exogenous hormones, viruses, environmental/occupational exposures, and diet.

This course applies and integrates the principles and tools of epidemiology to the study of cancer. The course includes discussions of the burden of various kinds of cancer across the United States and the world by age, gender, and race/ethnicity, the underlying biology behind the development of cancer in humans, cancer surveillance, and the epidemiology of various types of cancer by cancer site such as breast, lung, and colorectal cancers. The course also examines the major risk factors of cancer such as smoking, alcohol use, endogenous and exogenous hormones, viruses, environmental/occupational exposures, and diet.