Guiding Cancer Control - A Path to Transformation (Paperback)

Throughout history, perhaps no other disease has generated the level of social, scientific, and political discourse or has had the degree of cultural significance as cancer. A collective in the truest sense of the word, "cancer" is a clustering of different diseases that afflict individuals in different ways. Its burdens are equally broad and diverse, from the physical, financial, and psychological tolls it imposes on individuals to the costs it inflicts upon the nation's clinical care and public health systems, and despite decades of concerted efforts often referred to as the "war on cancer", those costs have only continued to grow over time. The causes and effects of cancer are complex?in part preventable and treatable, but also in part unknown, and perhaps even unknowable. Guiding Cancer Control defines the key principles, attributes, methods, and tools needed to achieve the goal of implementing an effective national cancer control plan. This report describes the current structure of cancer control from a local to global scale, identifies necessary goals for the system, and formulates the path towards integrated disease control systems and a cancer-free future. This framework is a crucial step in establishing an effective, efficient, and accountable system for controlling cancer and other diseases. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Complexity: From Cells to Society 2 The Current "System" of Cancer Control 3 Guiding the System of Cancer Control 4 A Path to Transformation Appendix A: Stakeholder Input Appendix B: Biographical Information Appendix C: Disclosure of Unavoidable Conflict of Interest

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine • Health and Medicine Division • Board on Health Care Services • Committee on a National Strategy for Cancer Control in the United States
Editors:	Sharyl J. Nass • Francis K. Amankwah • Guru Madhavan • Michael M. E. Johns
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	174
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-49231-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Oncology > General
LSN:	0-309-49231-9
Barcode:	9780309492317

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