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

Patricia Mabry and coauthors discuss application of systems approaches in cancer research.
Competing Interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PLM sits on the Board of Directors as Board Chair of Computer Simulation and Advance Research Technologies (since 2019), a non-profit with charity status in Australia and is an Advisory Board member to the Systems-science Informed Public Health Economic Research for Non-communicable Disease Prevention Consortium (SIPHER, since 2019), a research project based in the United Kingdom and funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership. PLM is PI on a project entitled, SCISIPBIO: Constructing Heterogeneous Scholarly Graphs to Examine Social Capital During Mentored K Awardees Transition to Research Independence: Explicating a Matthew Mechanism, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. JSW is a co-founder of Avail Bio and is paid expert work from Pfizer and Sanofi.