Epidemiological Perspectives on Low-Dose Exposure to Human Carcinogens

摘要: The major strength of epidemiological studies is that human beings are under study, risk thus not extrapolated from animal data or derived molecular studies. It should be underlined concerned with events which occur in populations. primary unit groups people and an individual. This how epidemiology differs clinical medicine. clinician interested what wrong a patient to cure the patient, while epidemiologists ask: “What caused disease could we prevent it?”. Thinking terms often seems strange clinicians who used think problem each single patient.