Advances in Cancer Screening

✍ Scribed by Anthony B. Miller (auth.), Anthony B. Miller (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Series: Cancer Treatment and Research 86
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The public health basis of cancer screening: principles and ethical aspects....Pages 1-7
The theoretical basis for cancer screening....Pages 9-24
Principles of economic evaluation in cancer screening....Pages 25-40
Screening for cervical cancer....Pages 41-49
Advances in screening for colorectal cancer....Pages 51-76
Advances in screening for breast cancer....Pages 77-91
Prostate cancer screening: current issues....Pages 93-112
Screening for gastric cancer....Pages 113-119
Screening for lung cancer....Pages 121-128
Screening for melanoma....Pages 129-147
Screening for Neuroblastoma....Pages 149-163
Screening for cancer in high-risk families....Pages 165-182
Screening in developing countries: problems and opportunities....Pages 183-189
Back Matter....Pages 191-198

✦ Subjects

Oncology; Epidemiology