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Guiding cancer control : a path to transformation / Michael M.E. Johns [and three others] editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on a National Strategy for Cancer Control in the United States, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--United States--Prevention.
- Cancer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- 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. -- Publisher website.
- Contents:
- Summary
- Complexity : from cells to society
- The current "system" of cancer control
- Guiding the system of cancer control
- A path to transformation
- Appendixes
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-309-49234-3
- 0-309-49232-7
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