Ecological approach to cancer epidemiology.
Man's influence on the 'environment' is such that it is now largely a product of his social activities. In turn the resulting wide-ranging environmental changes have had a profound effect on the structure of human pathology to which the term 'pathomorphosis' is applied. Lung cancer and stomach cancer are cited as examples of the close links between socially-determined environmental changes (e.g. industrialization, urbanization, changing diets, cigarette smoking) and concrete pathomorphic manifestations.
D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D012306:Risk; D012907:Smoking; D012931:Social Environment; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology