title: [A « Cancer epidemic »?]
abstract: The SEER site set up by the NCI provides an opportunity to generate ad hoc graphs of cancer statistics over the last forty years, makes it possible to examine commonly held assumptions such as a "cancer epidemic" and allows instructive insights into the trends of malignancies and of therapy.
authors.affiliation: UMR 7268 ADÉS, Aix-Marseille, Université/EFS/CNRS, Espace éthique méditerranéen, hôpital d'adultes la Timone, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France - CoReBio PACA, case 901, parc scientifique de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France.
authors.forename: Bertrand
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jordan
mesh_terms: D058872:Epidemics; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009026:Mortality; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018426:SEER Program; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology