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what did cristian tomasetti and bert volelstein say in an article

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-some tissue types give rise to human cancer million times more often than any other tissues
-only a third of the variation in cancer risk among tissues is attribuable to enviromental factors and inherited dispositions
-basically a majority of cancers are due to bad luck arising during dna rep

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what was the reaction of epidemiologists after berts claim

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-they were like bro wtf
-the epidemiologists said that the claim was wrong
-cancer rates change over time
-a majority of cancers are preventable

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true or false cancer rates are changing over time

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-true
-different cancers in different tissues change over time

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what was the data that bert was looking at when he made his claim

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-he was looking at the r^2 value of 0.65
-a linear corrolation of 0.804 suggests that 65% of the differences in cancer risk between different tissues can be explained by the total number of stem cell divisions in those tissues

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why was berts data kinda ass

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-because his 65% of the differences in cancer risk between different tissues can be explained by the total number of stem cell divisions
-it can’t explain the differences in cancer risk between different people and between different populations
-does not explain hy colorectal cancer is so mugh higher in canada compared to other countries

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what is epidemiology

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study of patterns and causes of disease in a population

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what does cancer surveillance in epi mean

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-measures burden of disease, incidence and mortality trends
-who gets cancer
-how many get cancer
how many will die
-is the risk of getting cancer increasinf or decreasing

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what does cancer risk mean in epi

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assessing candidate etiologic factors

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what does cancer prevention mean in epi

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assessing the efficacy and the impact of screening, chemoprevention and other preventive approaches

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what does cancer survival mean in epi

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assessing prognostic factors and determinants of quality of life

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what are the 4 main things that people in epi study

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-cancer surveillance
-cancer risk
-cancer prevention
-cancer survival

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measuring occurrence of cancer: number of cases

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-new cancer cases
-new cancer deaths
-units: cases
-number of cases are useful for health system planning like how many beds you need in a hospital

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What does incidence rate;

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new cancer cases in a population per person years

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what is the mortality rate

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new cancer deaths in a population per person years

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what are the units in epi

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cases per person time

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unlike number of cases, rates account for….

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population size and time frame and so are useful for measuring risk and causality

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why is the rate of cancer in 85ys old high than 60 years olds

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because there are more 65 years olds but there are less 85yrs old. but there are more 85yrs old that have cancer

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true or false; incidence rate of cancer is higher in high income countries

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true

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why is the rate of incidence is higher in high income countries

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-better diagnosis in high income countries
-our heaqlth systems are better which help us escape easier deaths

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what census is used in direct afe standardization

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-2011 census population in canada (cross-time comparisons)
-1960 world population (cross-country comparisons)

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what happens after direct age standardization

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-all populations have the same standard age distribution
-any difference are not caused by age, basically everyone is 40

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why is direct age standardization kind of a slay

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allows comparing populations with different age structures (countries, time periods) to assess changes in cancer risk

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what is crude incidence rate

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dividing by population size adjusts for changes in pop size

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is your risk of cancer increasing over time

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it is decreasing

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true or false: age standardized incidence rates in canadians are getting lower
-false, they are kinda equals out -some are getting lower and some are getting higher
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do we survive more
yeah we do -that is due to less lung, colorectal and best cancer mortality
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what are the odds to get cancer as a man and a woman
-44% in men -43% in woman
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what are the odds to die from cancer as a man and a woman
-26% in men -22% in women
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net cancer survival adjusts for....
competing causes of death which is when people had cancer and they still end up dying
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what is the rate of survuval for colorectal cancer
67%
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what is the rate of survuval of prostate cancer
91%
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what was the 5 year survival rate in the 40s vs now
-25% -65%
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true or false: childhood cancer incidence increased and morality decreases
true
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why is the incidence rate of cervical cancer so different between southern afrika and australia
-less pap smears to detect pre cancer and cancer -australia has more screenings -hpv causes cervical cancer which can be prevented by protection
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what are the causes of liver cancer
-hep c and b -alcohol
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why does mongolia has so much liver cancer
hep b is the most prevalent in mongolia due to unsanitary practices in the past
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true or false: the dormant phase of tumor growth lasta 12 years
false: 15 years
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when can you usually detect cancer
around 17yrs after onset
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true or false; we saw directly after the people started to smoke more that there was a rise in lung cancer raters
false it took like 20 years before we fully saw the effects
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what was the leading cancerin the us before lung cancer
-stomach cancer
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stomach cancer is caused by what
-salt consumption -ulcers caused by helicobacter pylori
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why is stomach cancer less of a slay in the us now
People stopped using salt top preserve things
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true or false: lung cancer used to be rare
true
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when did people start to smoke more
-during the 1st world war soldiers were given rations
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who was the lung cancer icon aka he coined the cancer was caused by tabacco
alton ochsner
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why was the smoking rate lower in the 30s
there was the great depression
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who was the doctor that said that lung cancer was not caused by smoking cigarettes
dr evarts graham he was like there is now was that smoking causes lung cancer
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true or false; we can't do an rtc in cancer research
true we can't because it would be unethical to do that
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why was there a drop in skoming in the 50s
two big papers said that cigarettes causes cancer but only doctors saw that literature
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problems with clinical trials in research
-rtc are unethical -not feasible to randomize exposure (ex: enviromental pollution) -most individual cancers have lpw incidence, would need yto ramdomize large pop =$$$ -long induction+clinical period -limited of comparisons can be made
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what are analytical studies
-measures the association between an exposure (biological, behavioral, enviromental, medical, treatment) and a health outcome (cancer) -includes a control group to compare outcomes
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what is a counter factual
-what would have happened in absense of risk factor x -in the case of lung cancer it would be risk factor; smoking
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what is causal inference
-counterfactuals -does risk factor x causes y
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inferring causal effects problems
-we can't really go back in time cuz we can;t control who smokes/smokes -so in the case of lung cancer it is kinda impossible to put the blame on smokies
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evarts graham and ernst wynder performed what in the 50s
-performed a famous case control study to refute the theory smoking=cancer -recruited 684 cases of lung caner and 750 controls
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what did graham and wynder learn in their iconic study
-we learned the outset of our study that the hospital records did not supply satisfactory asnwers to our questions, it was therefore decided to seek the disired information by special interviews
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true or false: in case control studies you ask questions about if they were exposed to smth in the past
true
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what si relatibe risk aka rr
-rr=1; exposed individuals have the same risk of experimencing the outcome as unexposed individuals -rr> exposed individuals have a higher risk of experimencing the outcome as unexposed individuals -rr<1; exposed individuals have lower chances of experimencing the outcome as unexposed individuals
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caution rr is a measure of...
association (corrolation), not of causal effect (correlation is not causation)
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risk of lung cancer in chain smokers and excessive smokers is ...xhigher than none and light smokers
30x
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what was the conclusion of grahams second case control study
-lung cancer is caused by smoking
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what did graham died of
lung cancer lol
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whjat did doll and hill discovered
-found the same as graham -british dics study -40 000 peeps
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march 1954 linked responses with
death records
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issues with observational data
-exposure may be correlated with other extraneous factors causing disease (confounding bias) -how xab we know if the association we observe refelects a true fcausal relationship -ex: does coffee cause cancer
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does coffee cause cancer
-no lol but they corrolated people that smoke moire usually drink more coffee -confounding: smoking -coffee does not increase the risk of cancer mortality after adjusting for smoking
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information bial
-error due to incorrect measurement of exposure and or health cancer -ex: people said that they ate an apple a day while they did not
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what is the causal agenbt of cervical cancer; histiry behind
-observations in the 1900s; cervical cancer is rare in nuns but freqyuent in sex workers and wives of husbands who frequent sex worker -they did a case control study: cervical cancer cases ahd more remarriage, younger age. atmarriage, younger age at first pregnancy and more sex than the controls -we thought it was herpes that causes cervical cancer in 60s and 70s
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when did we say hov causes cervical cancer
1995 classified as a iarc; group 1 carcinogen
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when was hopv detected in cervical cancer
1983
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how were we able to coin hpv=cancer
thanks to pcrrr
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non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs aka nsaids cause what
reduce inflammation and prevents blood clots and lowers the rate between 10-50% of colorectal cancer
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low dose aspirtinb reduced risk of cancer by... and mortality by...
25% and 39%
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what is population attributable fraction
-what proportion of cancer cases ate attributable to a specific exposure -depends on rr; the more it increases the more paf increase
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look over the rr graphs
ss
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... of melanomas is caused by sunburns in youth
50%
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what is cancer screening
-examination of asymptomatic people in order to identify disease or disease precursor
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conditions for screenings
-must be pre clinical phase during which disease is undiagnosed, asymptomatic but detectable -must be somne benefit of early treatment over later treatmeant
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wjay is peak time to detect smth with screenings
9-17 years
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COLORECTAL CANCER SCREEENING RESUKTS
-INTERVENTION GROUP HAD 23% lower colorectal cancer incidence and 31% lower colorectal mortality riskl
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true or false: ovarian cancer is a slay
no
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screening recommend:
-colorectal -cervical -lung -breast
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what is the cabnadian task force on preventiver heralth cate
evaluates syustematic review evidence to devlop consensus recommendations to rpeventivbe interventiopm
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screening is mot revcommended:
-pelvic exams for other gyni cancers -prostare canecrt
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