I've just uploaded a new version of my previously published file on the age distribution of occurrences for 626 different types of cancers.
http://www.julesberman.info/seerdist.pdf
This file is intended to be a resource for pathologists, epidemiologists and cancer researchers.
I've also uploaded a new file on cancers with multimodal age distributions (i.e., more than one peak in the age distribution for the neoplasm).
http://www.julesberman.info/bimode.pdf
I'll be discussing this file in the next several blog posts.
-© 2009 Jules Berman
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