Latent Archetypes of the Spatial Patterns of Cancer.

ABSTRACT: The cancer atlas edited by several countries is the main resource for the analysis of the geographic variation of cancer risk. Correlating the observed spatial patterns with known or hypothesized risk factors is time-consuming work for epidemiologists who need to deal with each cancer separately, breaking down the patterns according to sex and race. The recent literature has proposed to study more than one cancer simultaneously looking for common spatial risk factors. However, this previous work has two constraints: they consider only a very small (2-4) number of cancers previously known to share risk factors. In this article, we propose an exploratory method to search for latent spatial risk factors of a large number of supposedly unrelated cancers. The method is based on the singular val

SUBMITTER: Menezes TP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11583956 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature