Cancer Epidemiology - MZ340E18

• Title: Cancer Epidemiology
• Czech title: Epidemiologie zhoubných novotvarů
• Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 7
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Ivana Kulhánová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Ivana Kulhánová, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Ivana Kulhánová, Ph.D. (08.02.2022)

The aim of the course is to present an overview of the basic concepts and issues in cancer epidemiology. The lectures will be focused on data sources, cancer classification, methods of descriptive analysis, cancer prevention, cancer screening and cancer treatment. Social inequalities in cancer will also be presented. International literature will be used in the course. Despite the fact that the main focus of the course is on the adult cancer epidemiology, some basic information will also be given on the epidemiology of childhood cancer and cancer among young adults.

Literature

Last update: Ivana Kulhánová, Ph.D. (08.02.2022)

Thun, M; Linet, MS; Haiman, CA; Cerhan, JR; Schottenfeld, D. Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention. Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press, 2017.

dos Santos Silva, I. Cancer Epidemiology: Principles and Methods. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1999.

Adami, H-O; Hunter, DJ; Lagiou, P; Mucci, L. Textbook of Cancer Epidemiology. Third Edition. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Stewart, BW; Wild, CP. World Cancer Report 2014. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2014.

Estève, J; Benhamou, E; Raymond, L. Statistical methods in cancer research. Volume IV. Descriptive epidemiology. IARC Scientific Publications No. 128. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1994. 

Mukherjee, S. The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer. New York, Scribner, 2010.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Ivana Kulhánová, Ph.D. (18.02.2024)

Exam requirements: 

1) assignments (5 in total) – max. 50 points

2) seminar paper (cca 1 500 - 2 000 words) – prerequisite for the test

3) feedback (evaluation of 2 papers of your colleagues)  – prerequisite for the test

4) test (cca 50 min) - max. 50 points

 

Final evaluation: max. 100 points

- 86 points and more = grade 1

- 75 – 85 points = grade 2

- 60 – 74 points = grade 3

- less than 60 points = failed

 

Detailed information regarding the guidelines and topics of the seminar papers will be given at the first lecture.

 

Syllabus

Last update: Ivana Kulhánová, Ph.D. (18.02.2024)

1. Introduction to cancer epidemiology, historical overview 

2. Data sources, analytical methods, types of epidemiological studies 

3. Descriptive analysis of cancer 

4. Cancer biology, TNM clasification 

5. Epidemiology of the main cancer sites I. 

6. Epidemiology of the main cancer sites II.

7. Levels of cancer prevention and risk factors for cancer 

8. Cancer screening

9. Cancer treatment and paliative care, psychosocial aspects of cancer care 

10. Social inequalities in cancer 

11. Childhood cancer and cancer among young adults 

12. Test + course summary

 

All material will be available in Moodle.