Cancer mapping / P. Boyle, C. S. Muir, E. Grundmann (eds.), 1988
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Information trouvée : Peter Boyle, FRSE FFPH FRCPS(Glas) FRCP(Edin) FMedSci, (born 8 June 1951, died 23
July 2022) was a British epidemiologist. He conducted research on globalisation of
cancer, where he showed the dramatic increase of cancer in low- and medium income
countries. He initially wanted to become a teacher but became fascinated in science
and worked from 1974 to 1977 as a statistician at the University Department of Medicine,
Glasgow and the following 7 years at the West of Scotland Cancer Surveillance Unit
in Glasgow. In 1984 he moved to Boston and worked at the Departments of Biostatistics
and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health and the Division of Biostatistics
and Epidemiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as Instructor and Assistant Professor.
During this time Boyle has coauthored his first two Lancet publications on cancer
mortality in Scotland. In 1986, he returned to Europe and became Scientist and Group
Head at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, in Lyon, France. In
1991 he again moved, this time to Milan, Italy to become the first chairperson of
the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Director of the Division of Cancer
Control of the European Institute of Oncology, EIO. In 2003 he was elected the 4th
Director of IARC and moved back to Lyon, a position he held from 2004 to 2008.[6]
He stood as a candidate for a second term as Director but was not successful. In 2009
Boyle was the founding President of a new private research institute, named International
Prevention Research Institute, based in Lyon, France.[
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