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Advances in Cancer Screening
Anthony B. . Ed(S): Miller
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Description for Advances in Cancer Screening
Hardback. Screening for cancer is an important focus of cancer control. This title intends 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, with a concentration on various findings. Editor(s): Miller, Anthony B. Series: Cancer Treatment and Research. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1050.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Series
Cancer Treatment and Research
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792340195
SKU
V9780792340195
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