Objective of the course:

The main objective of the course is to provide a bird's eye view of the basic concepts of epidemiological methods applied in cancer research and state-of-the-art of caner epidemiology by site, both worldwide and regional.

Specific aims include:

· Help non-epidemiologists in better understanding of epidemiologic literature.

· Encourage non-epidemiologists to contribute to epidemiologic research.

· Encourage use of registry date in clinical and epidemiologic research.

· Overview of statistical methods applied in epidemiologic studies

· Minimize the gap between clinicians and epidemiologists to be able to use and understand a common language.   

By the end of the course, participants should be able to

· Read and understand literature related to cancer epidemiology

· Contribute in epidemiologic studies and perform simple statistical analysis of data.

· Planning of research protocols based on registry data.

· Know when to seek help of statisticians/epidemiologists and speak a common language with them