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Advances in Cancer Screening

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Anthony B. Miller

    1. University of Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research (CTAR, volume 86)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The public health basis of cancer screening: principles and ethical aspects

    • Anthony B. Miller
    Pages 1-7

  3. The theoretical basis for cancer screening

    • Nicholas E. Day
    Pages 9-24

  4. Principles of economic evaluation in cancer screening

    • Murray Krahn, Gary Naglie
    Pages 25-40

  5. Screening for cervical cancer

    • Matti Hakama
    Pages 41-49

  6. Advances in screening for colorectal cancer

    • Jack S. Mandel
    Pages 51-76

  7. Advances in screening for breast cancer

    • Sue M. Moss
    Pages 77-91

  8. Prostate cancer screening: current issues

    • Philip C. Prorok, Arnold L. Potosky, John K. Gohagan, Barnett S. Kramer
    Pages 93-112

  9. Screening for gastric cancer

    • Paola Pisani, D. Maxwell Parkin
    Pages 113-119

  10. Screening for lung cancer

    • D. Maxwell Parkin, Paola Pisani
    Pages 121-128

  11. Screening for melanoma

    • J. Mark Elwood
    Pages 129-147

  12. Screening for Neuroblastoma

    • Mark L. Bernstein, William G. Woods
    Pages 149-163

  13. Screening for cancer in high-risk families

    • William D. Foulkes, Steven A. Narod
    Pages 165-182

  14. Screening in developing countries: problems and opportunities

    • Anthony B. Miller
    Pages 183-189

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 191-198
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About this book

Screening for cancer is an important focus of cancer control. Yet screening, as it involves administering a test to large segments of the population deemed to be at risk for the disease of interest, is potentially a major consumer of scarce health care resources. In addition, the benefits sought from cancer screening, particularly reduction in mortality from the disease, are not always realized, either for biological or organizational reasons. Thus, the paradigm that `early detection must always be beneficial', taught to health care professionals, and publicized widely through the media to the public, has been challenged in the last two decades for a number of cancer sites. It is the purpose of Advances in Cancer Screening to determine the extent to which the requirements for the introduction of population-based screening programs have been met, as a result of extensive research on screening during the last two decades, with a major concentration on findings from the recent decade.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Canada

    Anthony B. Miller

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Cancer Screening

  • Editors: Anthony B. Miller

  • Series Title: Cancer Treatment and Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1265-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4019-5Published: 30 September 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8539-7Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1265-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0927-3042

  • Series E-ISSN: 2509-8497

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 198

  • Topics: Oncology, Epidemiology

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