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Winner of the Council Chair's Choice Award at the 2019 British Medical Association Awards.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.
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
List of contributors vii
Foreword xi
Prologue xiii
1 Global perspectives surrounding cancer prevention and screening 1Peter David Sasieni and Donald Maxwell Parkin
2 Public health perspectives surrounding cancer prevention and screening: The Ontario edition 19Linda Rabeneck and Arlinda Ruco
3 Cancer screening: A general perspective 31Otis W. Brawley
4 The balance of cancer screening risks and benefits 41Julietta Patnick
5 Cancer screening issues in black and ethnic minority populations 51Otis W. Brawley
6 Public awareness of cancer screening 57Jane Wardle and Laura A.V. Marlow
7 Public understanding of cancer prevention 69Jessica Kirby and Sarah Woolnough
8 Cervical cancer screening: An exemplar of a population screening programme and cervical cancer prevention 81Albert Singer and Ashfaq Khan
9 Prevention of and screening for anal cancer 101Andrew E. Grulich Richard J. Hillman and Isobel M. Poynten
10 The prevention of breast cancer 111Anthony Howell Michelle N. Harvie Sacha J. Howell Louise S. Donnelly and D. Gareth Evans
11 Breast cancer: Population and targeted screening 129Fiona J. Gilbert Fleur Kilburn‐Toppin Valerie D.V. Sankatsing and Harry J de Koning
12 Prostate cancer prevention 145Evan Kovac Andrew J. Stephenson Margaret G. House Eric A. Klein, and Howard L. Parnes
13 Population screening for prostate cancer 171Richard J. Bryant Monique J. Roobol and Freddie C. Hamdy
14 Colon cancer prevention 183John Burn and Harsh Sheth
15 Colon cancer screening 203David F. Ransohoff
16 Lung cancer prevention 217Jonathan M. Samet
17 Lung cancer screening 237Christine D. Berg Kwun M. Fong and Henry M. Marshall
18 Mesothelioma: Screening in the modern age 257Joanna Sesti Sabina Musovic Jessica S. Donington and Harvey I. Pass
19 Skin cancer prevention and screening 275Mark Elwood and Terry Slevin
20 Screening and prevention of oral cancer 295Apurva Garg Pankaj Chaturvedi and Rajiv Sarin
21 Oesophageal cancer 309Timothy J. Underwood
22 Hepatocellular carcinoma: Prevention and screening 317Aileen Marshall and Tim Meyer
23 Ovarian cancer prevention and screening 331Aleksandra Gentry‐Maharaj Michelle Griffin and Usha Menon
24 Screening for testicular cancer 349Kevin Litchfield Clare Turnbull and Robert A. Huddart
25 Issues in paediatric cancers 361Jonah Himelfarb and David Malkin
26 Obesity and dietary approaches to cancer prevention 381Andrew G. Renehan
27 Risk profiling for cancer prevention and screening – lessons for the future 403Rosalind A. Eeles Paul Pharoah Alison Hall Susmita Chowdhury,and Hilary Burton
28 Cancer prevention and screening: Advances to carry forward 417Christine D. Berg Rosalind A. Eeles and Jeffrey S. Tobias
Index 425
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