Cancer screening : theory and practice / edited by Barnett S. Kramer, John K. Gohagan, Philip C. Prorok.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Kramer, Barnett S., 1948-, Gohagan, John Kenneth, Prorok, P. C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Marcel Dekker, ©1999.
Series:Basic and clinical oncology ; 18.
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Table of Contents:
  • Series Introduction / Bruce D. Cheson
  • I. Background
  • 1. History / Sam Shapiro
  • 2. Heroic Myths and Probability: Confronting the Limits of Screening / Edward S. Golub
  • II. Basic Principles of Screening
  • 3. Screening Theory and Study Design: The Basics / Philip C. Prorok, Barnett S. Kramer and John K. Gohagan
  • 4. Decision-Making About Screening: Individual and Policy Levels / Russell Harris
  • 5. Regulation of Medical Devices by the Food and Drug Administration with Emphasis on In Vitro Diagnostic Devices / Peter E. Maxim and Steven I. Gutman
  • 6. Ethics and Consent / Douglas L. Weed
  • III. Screening for Specific Cancers
  • 7. Breast Cancer / S.M. Moss
  • 8. Bladder Cancer / Paul F. Schellhammer and Richard Moriarty
  • 9. Cervix Cancer / Anthony B. Miller
  • 10. Colorectal Cancer / Jack Cuzick
  • 11. Head and Neck Cancer / Scott M. Lippman, Anita L. Sabichi and Jack L. Gluckman
  • 12. Liver Cancer / Robert S. Brown, Jr. and Bruce F. Scharschmidt
  • 13. Lung Cancer / William C. Black
  • 14. Melanoma / Howard K. Koh, Alan C. Geller and Robert A. Lew
  • 15. Neuroblastoma / Isra G. Levy, Geoffrey E. Dougherty and Gerry B. Hill
  • 16. Ovarian Cancer / Vicki L. Seltzer
  • 17. Pancreatic Cancer / Ralph H. Hruban, Charles J. Yeo and Scott E. Kern
  • 18. Prostate Cancer / Fritz H. Schroder
  • 19. Gastric Cancer / D. Maxwell Parkin and Paola Pisani
  • 20. Endometrial Cancer / Joan L. Walker and Evelyn Rosas Nunez
  • IV. Into the Future
  • 21. New Screening Technologies / John K. Gohagan, Sudhir Srivastava and Susan C. Rossi
  • 22. Genetic Inheritance of Cancer Risk: Applications to Cancer Screening / Emily L. Harris.