ISBN : 9780199550173
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 supportive and palliative care. It emphasizes the application of new knowledge gained through research to achieve current best practice. Cancer control has become a political priority in many countries in recent years, with the evolution of both national and regional cancer control strategic plans. The integrated nature of cancer control, involving a wide spectrum of health care professionals, researchers, and health managers and planners, is reflected in this multi-disciplinary text, which is the first in this rapidly developing field.
1 - THE CANCER CHALLENGE
1. Cancer control and the burden of cancer
2 - PREVENTION AND SCREENING
2. Active cancer prevention
3. Achieving behavioural changes in individuals and populations
4. Early diagnosis and screening in cancer control
3 - APPLYING NEW RESEARCH
5. Integrating science with service in cancer control: closing the gap between discovery and delivery
6. The impact of immunization on cancer control: the example of HPV vaccination
4 - IMPROVING PATIENT CARE
7. Improving cancer services: the approach taken in England
8. Population-based cancer control and the role of guidelines - towards a 'systems' approach
9. The optimal provision of cancer treatment services
10. Managing the cost of new therapies: the challenge of funding new drugs
11. Community supports for people affected by cancer
12. Improving quality of life
13. Shifting the paradigm: from complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to integrative oncology
14. Patient centred supportive and palliative care
PART 5 - INTEGRATED CANCER CONTROL
15. From cancer care to cancer control: organization of population-based cancer control systems
16. Getting the public involved in cancer control - doing something besides worrying
17. Organizational structures for cancer control
18. Evaluating the outcomes of cancer control
19. Priority setting methods and cancer control
20. Ethics and the idea of cancer control
21. Integrating cancer control with control of other non-communicable diseases
22. Cancer control in developing countries
23. Strengthening the global community for cancer control