Symposium on Geographical Pathology and Demography of Cancer

Abstract

This volume contains the papers read at a symposium held in Oxford, England, in 1950, under the chairmanship of Prof. J. H. Maisin and sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Several papers are devoted to statistical variations in cancer incidence between different countries or within a single country. A paper by R. Doll on the etiology of cancer of the lung, especially the correlation between incidence among tobacco smokers and nonsmokers is a careful statement of current English studies. Other papers analyze cancer incidence in India, Indonesia, and North Africa in relation to nutrition and food habits, environment, and other disease states. Dr. Symeonidis from the National Cancer Institute introduces interesting observations on the relationship of poststarvation gynecomastia in Greece to hormonal imbalance and its implication as a factor in breast cancer. The administrative aspects of geographic pathology as