Cancer Prevention and Screening: Concepts, Principles and Controversies

Globally, cancer is becoming an extremely important health problem, including in countries where it has historically not been considered a priority. Increases in longevity, together with high tobacco use and the growing prevalence of obesity, have all contributed to rapidly rising cancer rates in many low income countries with scarce resources for treatment. Prevention, therefore, is essential.

This all–new book includes background information on prevention and screening, for quick reference by researchers and, especially, clinicians. While offering up to date information for clinical application of the most recent techniques in prevention and screening of all major and many lesser cancer types, the editors and authors also emphasise the importance of multidisciplinary teamwork in cancer screening. Readers will find careful discussion of the dilemmas and difficulties encountered during cancer screening, as well as clear–cut clinical strategies for optimal patient education, communication, and compliance with cancer prevention techniques.

Includes background information on epidemiology, cancer prevention, and cancer screening, for quick reference

Offers the latest information for clinical application of the most recent techniques in prevention and screening of all major and many lesser cancer types

Emphasises the importance of multidisciplinary teamwork in cancer screening Highlights frequent dilemmas and difficulties encountered during cancer screening Provides clear–cut clinical strategies for optimal patient education, communication, and compliance with cancer prevention techniques Written by an esteemed editorial board from the UK and USA which has teamed up with individual chapter authors who are international experts to write about the latest issues and controversies in this field

Cancer Prevention and Screening offers physicians, and all clinical healthcare professionals and students a comprehensive, useful source of the latest information on cancer screening and prevention with both a global and a multidisciplinary perspective.

Jeffrey S. Tobias, MD, FRCP, FRCR, is Professor in Cancer Medicine at The Meyerstein Institute of Oncology, The Middlesex Hospital, London, UK 

Christine D. Berg, MD, is Adjunct Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiations Sciences, at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Rosalind A. Eeles, MA, PhD, FRCP, FRCR, FMedSci is Professor of Oncogenetics and Team Leader in Oncogenetics  at The Institute of Cancer Research and an  Honorary Consultant in Cancer Genetics and Clinical Oncology at the The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, UK