Date of Award

1-1-2015

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Program

Biostatistics

Content Description

1 online resource (ix, 103 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Igor G Zurbenko

Committee Members

Gregory DiRienzo, Jessica Morrison

Keywords

Biostatistics, Cancer latency, Epidemiology, Weibull, Weibull distribution, Cancer

Subject Categories

Biostatistics

Abstract

More than one-third of all Americans will be diagnosed with cancer sometime in their lives. Though their illness may be invisible now, it presents a great, and largely unexamined, opportunity to find and treat their cancers early. Early detection represents one of the most promising approaches to reduce the growing cancer burden by identifying cancer while it is localized and curable, preventing not only mortality, but also reducing morbidity and costs.

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