Cancer systems epidemiology: Overcoming misconceptions and integrating systems approaches into cancer research

PLoS Med. 2022 Jun 17;19(6):e1004027. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004027. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Patricia L Mabry¹, Nicolaas P Pronk^{1

2}, Christopher I Amos^{3

4}, John S Witte⁵, Patrick T Wedlock^{6

7}, Sarah M Bartsch^{6

7}, Bruce Y Lee^{6

7}

¹ HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington, Minnesota, United States of America.
² University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
³ Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.
⁴ Baylor College of Medicine, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
⁶ Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health (CATCH), CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York City, New York, United States of America.
⁷ Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research (PHICOR), CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York City, New York, United States of America.

Abstract

Patricia Mabry and coauthors discuss application of systems approaches in cancer research.