Morton Levin (1904-1995): History in the Making

Armenian, Haroutune K.; Szklo, Moysés

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“…Notifications of cancer cases (lung, colon, stomach, rectum) were received from 20 London hospitals, with the latter three cancers used as "contrasting groups". A retrospective account of the events surrounding the publications of these articles has been provided in recent papers in the American Journal of Epidemiology (Armenian & Szklo 1996;Wynder 1997;Terris 1997). As in Wynder and Graham (1950), attention was paid to the duration of smoking, to histories of starting and stopping smoking, and to the amount smoked.…”

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Origins and early development of the case-control study: part 2, The case-control study from Lane-Claypon to 1950

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2002

Sozial- und Pr�ventivmedizin/Social and Preventive Medicine

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The first modern case-control study was Janet Lane-Claypon's study of breast cancer in 1926, but the design was used only sporadically in medicine and the social sciences until 1950, when four published case-control studies linked smoking and lung cancer. These 1950 studies synthesized the essential elements of the case-control comparison, produced a conceptual shift within epidemiology, and laid the foundation for the rapid development of the case-control design in the subsequent half century.

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Origins and early development of the case-control study: part 2, The case-control study from Lane-Claypon to 1950

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2002

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“…Dr. Levin died in 1995, having lived to the age of 91. 4 Dr. Levin's contribution to the first volume of Cancer was based on a presentation made at a centennial symposium at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, an institution that recently held similar symposia celebrating a sesquicentennial.…”

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Cancer epidemiology 50 years later

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1998

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“The Great Debate”: Smoking, Lung Cancer, and Cancer Epidemiology

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Connelly³

2003

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

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Abstract. During the first decades of the 20th century the lung cancer death rate increased sharply in developed countries, including Canada. An association with cigarette smoking was suspected. Between 1950 and 1960 many epidemiological studies confirmed this association. The validity of these studies was attacked fiercely by some renowned statisticians. The resulting debate sharpened the methodological and analytical rigour of epidemiological studies. Epidemiology became an indispensable tool in cancer prevention.RCsumb. Pendant les premi6res d6cennies du XXe siecle la mortalit6 attribuable au cancer du poumon augmentait nettement dans les pays industrialids, le Canada compris. On a soupconne une relation avec la fum6e de la cigarette. Entre 1950 et 1960 ungrand nombre &etudes 6pidemiologiques ont corrobor6 cette relation. Plusieurs statisticiens r&ncnnmes ont attaque fhrocement la validit6 de ces etudes. Le d6bat suivant a aiguis6 la rigeur m6thologique et analytique des etudes Cpidemioloqiues. IXpid6miologie est devenue un outil indispensable pour la prhention du cancer.In his magisterial survey of the major epidemics of the 20th century, Sir Richard Doll2 identified lung cancer and coronary thrombosis as the , two most important causes of premature death. Although both epidemics have begun to wane, lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer mortality in Canada, accounting for about 30% of cancer deaths in males and 20% of cancer deaths in females.3 It is now acknowledged that the epidemic of lung cancer was due primarily to cigarette smoking, and some progress has been made in the campaign to reduce the preva-

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Morton Levin (1904-1995): History in the Making

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Origins and early development of the case-control study: part 2, The case-control study from Lane-Claypon to 1950

Origins and early development of the case-control study: part 2, The case-control study from Lane-Claypon to 1950

Cancer epidemiology 50 years later

“The Great Debate”: Smoking, Lung Cancer, and Cancer Epidemiology

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