tailieunhanh - AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS – CURRENT CONCEPTS AND ADVANCES FROM BEDSIDE TO MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS

Cancer is one of the leading causes of deaths in the industrialized world (World Health Organization [WHO], 2004) and the second leading cause of death in Germany (Federal Statistical Office of Germany [DeStatis], 2007). It has been demonstrated that migrant cancer incidence and mortality differs in general from cancer patterns in the respective host population. Cancer is known to have a long latency period between exposure and disease onset. Important exposure factors can be traced back to childhood and young adulthood. This means short and medium term cancer mortality among first generation migrants is mainly influenced by country-of-origin factors (Parkin & Khlat, 1996) | AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS - CURRENT CONCEPTS AND ADVANCES FROM BEDSIDE TO MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS Edited by Fang-Ping Huang Autoimmune Disorders - Current Concepts and Advances from Bedside to Mechanistic Insights Edited by Fang-Ping Huang Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9 51000 Rijeka Croatia Copyright 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution license which permits to copy distribute transmit and adapt the work in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech authors have the right to republish it in whole or part in any publication of which they are the author and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published articles. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials instructions methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Alenka Urbancic Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer Jan Hyrat Image Copyright Piotr Zajc 2011. Used under license from First published September 2011 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@ Autoimmune Disorders - Current Concepts and Advances from Bedside to Mechanistic Insights Edited by Fang-Ping Huang p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-653-9 ikrrr iJ OPEN ACCESS INI Cvn PUBLISHER INTECH open free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at .