STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF LINKS BETWEEN CANCER AND ASSOCIATED DISEASES
We investigate dependencies between cancer morbidity and associated diseases. A statistical method that yields blocks of diseases with most signiﬁ cant inﬂuence on the cancer morbidity is described. Based on USA data about cause-speciﬁc mortality we select diseases which have maximum differences between distributions of associated diseases in a group of people which had cancer or died from it and a group of people which didn’t have cancer. A medical interpretation of the results is discussed.