Intertumor linkage of age-adjusted incidence rate in 15 human neoplasias of both sexes.
We report here that the application of the least square method of Gauss to the log-transformed age-adjusted incidence rate changes in time and space, as tested with either the male-female or the female-male tumor pairs for each of 15 tumor entities, has revealed the presence of intertumor linkage that was conditioning the changes of two cancer risk parameters to let them fit to the equilibrium model with close resemblance to the chemical equilibrium model. The dissimilarity of the cancer risk equilibrium model to the chemical equilibrium model--topological dissociation between the equilibrium model of centripetal force (r = -1.000) and that of centrifugal force (r = +1.000)--was discussed in the light of the concept of the oncogene activation-tumor suppressor gene inactivation. The proposed network hypothesis of human neoplasia found supporting evidence in the corresponding changes of the statistical features of human neoplasias with and without sex discrimination of cancer risk.
Kodama
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Kodama Research Institute of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Kodama
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Murakami
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Yokochi
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D017677:Age Distribution; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014171:Transients and Migrants