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Epidemiology: Demographic Aspects

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Cancer of the Large Bowel

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Where the concern of the clinician is with the individual patient, the object of the epidemiological approach is to study the group, and thence to infer from the behaviour of patients observed collectively features of importance in the diagnosis and treatment of the individual. Conclusions drawn in this way must of course depend for their validity upon the relevance and representative nature of the source group in their application to specific fields.

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  1. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

    Sir Geoffrey Slaney KBE, MSc, ChM, FRCS (Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Honorary Consultant Surgeon)

  2. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, England

    Sir Geoffrey Slaney KBE, MSc, ChM, FRCS (Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Honorary Consultant Surgeon)

  3. Regional Cancer Registry, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham, England

    Jean Powell BSc, FIS, Christopher C. Mcconkey BSc, John A. H. Waterhouse MA, PhD, HonFFOM & Ciaran B. J. Woodman MB, BCh, BAO, MRCOG, MFCM, MD

  4. Cancer Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

    Jean Powell BSc, FIS, Christopher C. Mcconkey BSc, John A. H. Waterhouse MA, PhD, HonFFOM & Ciaran B. J. Woodman MB, BCh, BAO, MRCOG, MFCM, MD

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  1. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

    Geoffrey Slaney KBE, MSc, ChM, FRCS (Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Honorary Consultant Surgeon) (Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Honorary Consultant Surgeon)

  2. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, England

    Geoffrey Slaney KBE, MSc, ChM, FRCS (Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Honorary Consultant Surgeon) (Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Honorary Consultant Surgeon)

  3. Regional Cancer Registry, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham, England

    Jean Powell BSc, FIS , Christopher C. McConkey BSc , John A. H. Waterhouse MA, PhD, HonFFOM  & Ciaran B. J. Woodman MB, BCh, BAO, MRCOG, MFCM, MD , ,  & 

  4. Cancer Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

    Jean Powell BSc, FIS , Christopher C. McConkey BSc , John A. H. Waterhouse MA, PhD, HonFFOM  & Ciaran B. J. Woodman MB, BCh, BAO, MRCOG, MFCM, MD , ,  & 

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Slaney, G., Powell, J., Mcconkey, C.C., Waterhouse, J.A.H., Woodman, C.B.J. (1991). Epidemiology: Demographic Aspects. In: Slaney, G., Powell, J., McConkey, C.C., Waterhouse, J.A.H., Woodman, C.B.J. (eds) Cancer of the Large Bowel. Clinical Cancer Monographs. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11420-7_2

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