Cancer Biology and Cell Science

Cancer Palliative Care & Survivors

Epidemiology, or how to infer likely trends and causes, is the study of factors that affect cancer. The concept of principle period predisposition holds that early detection may falsely inflate the chances of a cancerous growth surviving, without significantly increasing the infection's typical course.

The study of epidemiology as it relates to the examination of cancer uses epidemiological methods to identify the cause of the tumour as well as to identify and develop improved treatments that improve the disease's typical course. Long-term propensity holds that slower-growing, more sluggish cancers will likely be examined by screening tests, but improvements in diagnosing more cases of slow disease may not translate into better patient outcomes after the execution of screening programmes.