Cancer Epidemiology and Modeling, Carcinogenesis

In this talk we will examine the link between two commonly used functions in cancer epidemiology (the incidence function and the relative risk function) and the study of carcinogenesis modeling. Specifically, we will look at some variations of the multistage model of carcinogenesis proposed by Armitage and Doll in the 1950’s, and examine  how these variations have been modified to help explain the incidence function. After this, we will present a related model which can be used to model the relative risk function.