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Social Dilemmas in Cancer Prevention

  • Textbook
  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Basil A. Stoll

    1. Oncology Departments, St Thomas’ Hospital and Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Basil A. Stoll
      Pages 1-3

  3. Dilemmas in Strategies for the Community

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Dilemmas in Selecting a Strategy

      • Basil A. Stoll
      Pages 7-19

    3. Multiple Factors in a Multistep Process

      • Basil A. Stoll
      Pages 21-31

    4. Diet-Related Cancer and its Control

      • Deirdre Haslett, John Kevany
      Pages 33-43

    5. Leisure-Related Cancer and its Control

      • J. A. Muir Gray
      Pages 45-55

    6. How Important is Radiation in Cancer Risk?

      • Marc Edwards, William Hendee
      Pages 57-66

    7. Mass Cancer Screening in Women: More Harm than Benefit?

      • Petr Skrabanek
      Pages 67-73

  4. Dilemmas in Strategies for the Individual

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Risk from Heredity, Race and Family

      • Bernadette Herity
      Pages 77-90

    3. Risk from Social Class and Occupation

      • Michael Calnan
      Pages 91-102

    4. Does the Mind Affect Cancer Risk?

      • Basil A. Stoll
      Pages 103-114

    5. What Makes for High Risk to Cancer?

      • Basil A. Stoll
      Pages 115-124

    6. Strategies for Chemical Prevention of Cancer

      • Daniel W. Nixon
      Pages 125-132

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 133-140
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About this book

This book examines the dilemmas that arise from a recent report which suggests that 80per cent of common cancers in the USA and Europe are preventable by a modification of life styles. It deals with the political and social quandaries involved in trying to reduce cancer deaths.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oncology Departments, St Thomas’ Hospital and Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

    Basil A. Stoll

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Dilemmas in Cancer Prevention

  • Editors: Basil A. Stoll

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10708-7

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor and the Contributors 1989

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 140

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Public Health, Oncology

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