Cancer control /
"Cancer control is the term applied to the development of integrated population-based approaches to reduce the incidence and mortality from cancer and to minimize its impact on affected individuals and on the community. It covers a spectrum of prevention, early diagnosis, optimal treatment, and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Cancer control and the burden of cancer
- Active cancer prevention
- Achieving behavioural changes in individuals and populations
- Early diagnosis and screening in cancer control
- Integrating science with service in cancer control : closing the gap between discovery and delivery
- The impact of immunization on cancer control : the example of HPV vaccination
- Improving cancer services : the approach taken in England
- Population-based cancer control and the role of guidelines - towards a 'systems' approach
- The optimal provision of cancer treatment services
- Managing the cost of new therapies : the challenge of funding new drugs
- Community supports for people affected by cancer
- Improving quality of life
- Shifting the paradigm : from complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to integrative oncology
- Patient-centred supportive and palliative care
- From cancer care to cancer control : organization of population-based cancer control systems
- Getting the public involved in cancer control - doing something besides worrying
- Organizational structures for cancer control
- Evaluating the outcomes of cancer control
- Priority setting methods and cancer control
- Ethics and the idea of cancer control
- Integrating cancer control with control of other non-communicable diseases
- Cancer control in developing countries
- Strengthening the global community for cancer control