A use of epidemiological data for cancer risk assessment and the precautionary principle

Abstract

Multicentre studies are proposed as an altenative to former aproaches, increase study size with large cohorts or case-control studies to mitigate criticism about metaanalyses of independent studies.

Keywords

• epidemiological data
• risk assessment
• precautionary principle
• cacer epidemiology
• carcinogenity
• multicentre studies
• genomics of cancer
• epigenomics