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Cancer encompasses a family of several hundreds of diseases which are distinguished by site, morphology, clinical behavior, and response to therapy. Whether considered from a biological, a clinical, or a public health point of view, it is the malignant and invasive nature of many of these diseases and their ability to spread to distant organs (metastasis) that are of dominant importance.

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  1. Institute for Translational Epidemiology and Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Paolo Boffetta

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  1. Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiologic Research, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, Germany

    Wolfgang Ahrens

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    Iris Pigeot

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Boffetta, P. (2014). Cancer Epidemiology. In: Ahrens, W., Pigeot, I. (eds) Handbook of Epidemiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09834-0_36

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