Cancers in the urban environment : patterns of malignant disease in Los Angeles County and its neighborhoods / Thomas M. Mack ; with the assistance of Myles Cockburn [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mack, Thomas M.

Contributor:

Cockburn, Myles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--California--Los Angeles County.

Cancer.

Neoplasms--epidemiology.

Los Angeles.

California--Los Angeles County.

Risk Factors.

Urban Health.

Medical Subjects:

Neoplasms--epidemiology.

Los Angeles.

Risk Factors.

Urban Health.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Atlases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 645 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, [2004]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume, the first of its kind ever, is designed to provide both laypersons and professionals with a detailed description of the occurrence of each common form of cancer in the ethnically, socially, and environmentally complex milieu of a modern urban complex. The place is Los Angeles County, and the patterns of 72 different malignancies are described according to race, age, sex, social class calendar time (since 1972) and most notably, individual neighborhood, using detailed maps of high risk. The book permits residents to screen the malignancies and identify those of special concern locally, and to identify other communities with similar concerns. The pattern of each malignancy is briefly discussed with reference to background knowledge of causation and the degree to which the observed pattern was expected on that basis. Persons residing outside Los Angeles County will identify patterns likely to prevail in their own communities. Physicians and scientific investigators in California and elsewhere can use the material provided to counsel patients and evaluate the consistency of any specific pattern of occurrence with each specific causal hypothesis. A detailed appendix describes the source of data, provides the basis for the choices made in the production of the volume, and gives a perspective on the search for clusters of malignancy. * Compares different types of cancers with respect to the degree of non-random occurrence * Contains numerous maps detailing the demographic and geographic pattern of cancer occurrence in Los Angeles County * Provides an empirical perspective to the search for disease "clusters."

Contents:

Introduction for scientists

Introduction for laypersons

What cancers are

Environmental and other causes of cancer

Resources used to detect local increases in risk

Methods used to detect local increases in risk

Errors due to chance

Comparison between "apples" and "oranges"

Failure to detect local increases in risk

Investigating a lead

Guide to the figures

Interpretation

Scientific and technical notes

Oropharyngeal carcinoma

Salivary gland malignancies

Squamous carcinoma of the esophagus/gastric cardia

Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus/gastric cardia

Adenocarcinoma of the (lower) stomach

Carcinoma of the small intestine

Colon carcinoma, total (both upper and sigmoid)

Carcinoma of the upper colon

Carcinoma of the sigmoid colon

Carcinoma of the rectum

Hepatocellular carcinoma

Cholangiocarcinoma

Gallbladder carcinoma

Biliary tract carcinoma

Pancreas carcinoma

Carcinoma of the nose/sinuses

Carcinoma of the larynx

Lung and bronchus carcinoma, total (all types)

Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung and bronchus

Large cell carcinoma of the lung and bronchus

Small cell carcinoma of the lung and bronchus

Adenocarcinoma of the lung and bronchus

Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma of the lung and bronchus

Undifferentiated carcinoma of the lung and bronchus

Carcinoma of the lung and bronchus, not otherwise classified

Mesothelioma

Soft tissue sarcoma

Angiosarcoma

Kaposi sarcoma

Osteosarcoma

Ewing's sarcoma

Malignant chordoma

Malignant melanoma

Breast carcinoma

Squamous cervix carcinoma (invasive)

Endometrial (uterine corpus) carcinoma

Epithelial carcinoma of the ovary

Germ cell malignancies

Prostate carcinoma

Anogenital adenocarcinoma

Anogenital squamous carcinoma

Mixed cell genital tumors

Transitional cell (non-squamous) bladder carcinoma

Squamous bladder carcinoma

Renal cell carcinoma

Wilms tumor (nephroblastoma)

Retinoblastoma

Brain malignancies (gliomas)

Spinal cord malignancies

Neurolemoma (nerve sheath malignancy)

Neuroblastoma

Malignant meningioma

Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid

Follicular carcinoma of the thyroid

Other carcinoma of the thyroid

Pituitary carcinoma

Multiple endocrine neoplasia

Carcinoma of the thymus

Mixed cellularity Hodgkin lymphoma

Nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma

Other Hodgkin lymphoma

All non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)

Follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Diffuse small lymphocytic or plasmacytic B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Diffuse mixed B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma

High-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma

T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Maltoma non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Other non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Central nervous system non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)

Stomach non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)

Other gastrointestinal non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)

Lymph node/other organ non-Hodgkin lymphomas (all non-Hodgkin lymphoma types)

Multiple myeloma

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Hairy cell leukemia

Acute non-lymphocytic leukemia

Chronic myelocytic leukemia

Other leukemias

All malignancies of infants/toddlers

All malignancies of older children

All malignancies of young adults

All malignancies of older adults

All malignancies

Overall summary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Mack, Thomas M. Cancers in the urban environment.

ISBN:

9780124643512

0124643515

9780080528465

0080528465

OCLC:

162575094

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.