Kaposi Sarcoma

Investigators from Queens College Zero in on Kaposi Sarcoma

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, December 26th, 2011

2011 DEC 26 -- According to the authors of a study from Flushing, New York, "It is proposed that, historically, when the conditions are right for laboratory sciences to contribute to causal knowledge, they take the place of epidemiology as leaders in a given field. Review examples of cholera, pellagra, and Kaposi's sarcoma."

"In the cases of cholera, pellagra. and Kaposi's sarcoma, epidemiology ceased to be at the forefront of knowledge acquisition when laboratory sciences identified more proximate causes than those that epidemiologic group comparisons could reveal. These three examples deal with diseases, which, at the individual level, appear to rely...

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Source: Clinical Oncology Week (2011-12-26)

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