Cancer epidemiology in the last century and the next decade

By J. Peto. Nature, 2001

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Complementing the Genome with an “Exposome”: The Outstanding Challenge of Environmental Exposure Measurement in Molecular Epidemiology (2005, background): “Environmental exposures are acknowledged to play an overwhelmingly important role in those common chronic diseases mentioned above, which constitute the major health burden in economically developed countries (3, 4).”
Actual causes of death in the United States, 2000. (2004, background): “Diet may have a minor additional effect on mortality mainly from lack of certain essential nutrients.(21,22) Consumption of fruits and vegetables increased in the 1990s,(23) and fat intake as a percentage of calories declined.”
Inflammation in prostate carcinogenesis (2007, background): “Chinese and Japanese men who immigrate to the west acquire higher prostate cancer risks within one generatio”
Smac agonists sensitize for Apo2L/TRAIL- or anticancer drug-induced apoptosis and induce regression of malignant glioma in vivo (2002, background): “gif" NDATA ITEM> ]> Cancer is one of the most common causes of death in Western countries, and as the average age in the Western population steadily rises, so do cancer-related death”