CP*Trends – Surveillance Research Program

When searching for clues as to what sorts of factors are driving cancer rates, it is often useful to examine whether the rates differ more by year of birth (i.e. birth cohort) or calendar year (i.e. period). For some cancers this is fairly obvious. For example: Smoking rates differ by birth cohort, and so do lung cancer rates The rapid introduction…

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