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Author:   Trevor Dummer
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:  

9783031664151

ISBN 10:   3031664159
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   28 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: People, Place, Cancer.- Chapter 2. Cancer Prevention: Principles and Approaches.- Chapter 3. Current State of Geospatial Approaches in Cancer Prevention Worldwide.- Chapter 4. Geospatial Science and Health: Overview of Data and Methods.- Chapter 5. Cohort Studies and Context: Infrastructure to Support Cancer Prevention.- Chapter 6. Applying Spatial Analysis Functionality to Enhance Routine Cancer Surveillance Systems.- Chapter 7. Not Only Smoking: Preventing Lung Cancers Caused by Environmental Exposures.- Chapter 8. Place-Based Approaches to Tobacco Control in China.- Chapter 9. The Nova Scotia Community Cancer Matrix: Small-Area Spatiotemporal Estimation of Local Patterns of Cancer Co-Occurrence, Risk and Inequity.- Chapter 10. Situating People and Place in Cancer Prevention: Arsenic in Drinking Water in Global to Local Context.- Chapter 11. The Development of the Australian Cancer Atlas: Understanding the Geography of Cancer.- Chapter 12. Understanding the Role of Place in Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening in Kenya and Ghana.

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Trevor Dummer is an Associate Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, where he holds the Canadian Cancer Society Chair in Cancer Primary Prevention. Trained in the UK, he is an interdisciplinary cancer prevention scientist with a background in health geography, GIS and environmental epidemiology. His research is concerned with how the environment influences cancer; including environmental exposures and the interrelation between behaviours and the built environment. This work cuts across the interplay between behaviour, environment, exposures and cancer risk to support cancer prevention through integrated knowledge translation.

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