
Cancer Prevention and Screening
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Cancer Prevention and Screening offers physicians and all clinical healthcare professionals a comprehensive, useful source of the latest information on cancer screening and prevention with both a global and a multidisciplinary perspective.
* 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
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Persons
ROSALIND A. EELES, MA (Cantab), 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 Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
CHRISTINE D. BERG, MD is Special Advisor to the Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA
JEFFREY S. TOBIAS, MA (Cantab), MD, FRCP, FRCR is Professor of Cancer Medicine at the Department of Oncology, University College London, and Honorary Consultant at University College Hospital Foundation Trust, London, UK
Content
List of contributors vii
Foreword xi
Prologue xiii
1 Global perspectives surrounding cancer prevention and screening 1
Peter David Sasieni and Donald Maxwell Parkin
2 Public health perspectives surrounding cancer prevention and screening: The Ontario edition 19
Linda Rabeneck and Arlinda Ruco
3 Cancer screening: A general perspective 31
Otis W. Brawley
4 The balance of cancer screening risks and benefits 41
Julietta Patnick
5 Cancer screening issues in black and ethnic minority populations 51
Otis W. Brawley
6 Public awareness of cancer screening 57
Jane Wardle and Laura A.V. Marlow
7 Public understanding of cancer prevention 69
Jessica Kirby and Sarah Woolnough
8 Cervical cancer screening: An exemplar of a population screening programme and cervical cancer prevention 81
Albert Singer and Ashfaq Khan
9 Prevention of and screening for anal cancer 101
Andrew E. Grulich Richard J. Hillman and Isobel M. Poynten
10 The prevention of breast cancer 111
Anthony Howell Michelle N. Harvie Sacha J. Howell Louise S. Donnelly and D. Gareth Evans
11 Breast cancer: Population and targeted screening 129
Fiona J. Gilbert Fleur Kilburn-Toppin Valerie D.V. Sankatsing and Harry J de Koning
12 Prostate cancer prevention 145
Evan Kovac Andrew J. Stephenson Margaret G. House Eric A. Klein, and Howard L. Parnes
13 Population screening for prostate cancer 171
Richard J. Bryant Monique J. Roobol and Freddie C. Hamdy
14 Colon cancer prevention 183
John Burn and Harsh Sheth
15 Colon cancer screening 203
David F. Ransohoff
16 Lung cancer prevention 217
Jonathan M. Samet
17 Lung cancer screening 237
Christine D. Berg Kwun M. Fong and Henry M. Marshall
18 Mesothelioma: Screening in the modern age 257
Joanna Sesti Sabina Musovic Jessica S. Donington and Harvey I. Pass
19 Skin cancer prevention and screening 275
Mark Elwood and Terry Slevin
20 Screening and prevention of oral cancer 295
Apurva Garg Pankaj Chaturvedi and Rajiv Sarin
21 Oesophageal cancer 309
Timothy J. Underwood
22 Hepatocellular carcinoma: Prevention and screening 317
Aileen Marshall and Tim Meyer
23 Ovarian cancer prevention and screening 331
Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj Michelle Griffin and Usha Menon
24 Screening for testicular cancer 349
Kevin Litchfield Clare Turnbull and Robert A. Huddart
25 Issues in paediatric cancers 361
Jonah Himelfarb and David Malkin
26 Obesity and dietary approaches to cancer prevention 381
Andrew G. Renehan
27 Risk profiling for cancer prevention and screening - lessons for the future 403
Rosalind A. Eeles Paul Pharoah Alison Hall Susmita Chowdhury,and Hilary Burton
28 Cancer prevention and screening: Advances to carry forward 417
Christine D. Berg Rosalind A. Eeles and Jeffrey S. Tobias
Index 425
List of contributors
Christine D. Berg
Special Advisor to the Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA
Otis W. Brawley
Chief Medical Officer, American Cancer Society, Georgia, USA
Richard J. Bryant
Cancer Research UK, Royal College of Surgeons of England Clinician Scientist Fellow, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Oxford Cancer Research Centre, University of Oxford;
Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon, Department of Urology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
John Burn
Professor, Institute of Genetic Medicine, International Centre for Life, Newcastle University, UK
Hilary Burton
Director, PHG Foundation, Cambridge, UK
Pankaj Chaturvedi
Professor, Head & Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
Susmita Chowdhury
Project Manager and Research Associate, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; PHG Foundation, Cambridge, UK
Jessica S. Donington
Associate Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA
Louise S. Donnelly
Research Fellow, Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust, Wythenshawe, UK
Rosalind A. Eeles
Professor of Oncogenetics and Team Leader in Oncogenetics, The Institute of Cancer Research, Honorary Consultant in Cancer Genetics and Clinical Oncology, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Mark Elwood
Professor of Cancer Epidemiology,
School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
D. Gareth Evans
Professor of Medical Genetics, Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust, Wythenshawe, UK; The Christie NHS Foundation Trust & Institute of Cancer Sciences; Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC), Institute of Human Development, University of Manchester, UK
Kwun M. Fong
Director, University of Queensland Thoracic Research Centre, and Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Apurva Garg
Senior Research Fellow, Head & Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj
Trial Coordinator, Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, UCL, London, UK
Fiona J. Gilbert
Professor of Radiology, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine; Honorary Consultant Radiologist, University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Michelle Griffin
Honorary Clinical Fellow, Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, UCL, London, UK
Andrew E. Grulich
Professor and Head, HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program, Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Alison Hall
Head of Humanities, PHG Foundation, Cambridge, UK
Freddie C. Hamdy
Professor, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Oxford Cancer Research Centre, University of Oxford; Department of Urology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
Michelle N. Harvie
Research Dietitian, Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust, Wythenshawe, UK
Richard J. Hillman
Associate Professor, HIV, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Jonah Himelfarb
Internal Medicine Resident, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Genetics and Genome Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Margaret G. House
Nurse Consultant, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Anthony Howell
Professor in Breast Oncology, Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust, Wythenshawe; The Christie NHS Foundation Trust & Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
Sacha J. Howell
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust, Wythenshawe; The Christie NHS Foundation Trust & Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
Robert A. Huddart
Professor of Urological Cancer, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Ashfaq Khan
Consultant and Head of Colposcopy Service, Whittington Hospital, and Senior Clinical Lecturer, UCL Medical School, London, UK
Fleur Kilburn-Toppin
Consultant Radiologist, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine; University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Jessica Kirby
Senior Health Information Manager, Cancer Research UK, London, UK
Eric A. Klein
Chairman, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Harry J de Koning
Professor of Evaluation of Screening, Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Evan Kovac
Urologic Oncology Fellow, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Kevin Litchfield
Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research; MRC Skills Development Fellow (Bioinformatics), Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
David Malkin
Director, Cancer Genetics Program, Staff Oncologist, Senior Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Laura A.V. Marlow
Research Associate, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL, London, UK
Aileen Marshall
Consultant in Hepatology, The Royal Free Sheila Sherlock Liver Centre, and UCL Institute of Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
Henry M. Marshall
Clinical Academic Fellow, University of Queensland Thoracic Research Centre, and Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Usha Menon
Research Group Lead, Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, UCL, London, UK
Tim Meyer
Professor, Department of Oncology, UCL Medical School, and UCL Cancer Institute, London, UK
Sabina Musovic
Research Data Coordinator, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA
Donald Maxwell Parkin
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK
Howard L. Parnes
Chief, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Harvey I. Pass
Stephen E. Banner Professor of Thoracic Oncology, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA
Julietta Patnick
Visiting Professor, Cancer Screening, University of Oxford, UK
Paul Pharoah
Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Isobel M. Poynten
Senior Lecturer, HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program, Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Linda Rabeneck
Vice President, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences; Cancer Care Ontario; Department of Medicine, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
David F. Ransohoff
Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine; Clinical Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Andrew G. Renehan
Professor of Cancer Studies and Surgery, Division of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester; Manchester Cancer Research Centre and NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre; Colorectal and Peritoneal Oncology Centre, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
Monique J. Roobol
Professor in Decision making in Urology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Arlinda Ruco
Health Services Researcher, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Department of Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, Canada
Jonathan M. Samet
Dean and Professor, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, USA
Valérie D.V. Sankatsing
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The...
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