Fulfilling the Potential of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
Fulfilling the Potential of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2003-05-07

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 0309170133

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Cancer ranks second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death in the United States, making it a tremendous burden in years of life lost, patient suffering, and economic costs. Fulfilling the Potential for Cancer Prevention and Early Detection reviews the proof that we can dramatically reduce cancer rates. The National Cancer Policy Board, part of the Institute of Medicine, outlines a national strategy to realize the promise of cancer prevention and early detection, including specific and wide-ranging recommendations. Offering a wealth of information and directly addressing major controversies, the book includes: A detailed look at how significantly cancer could be reduced through lifestyle changes, evaluating approaches used to alter eating, smoking, and exercise habits. An analysis of the intuitive notion that screening for cancer leads to improved health outcomes, including a discussion of screening methods, potential risks, and current recommendations. An examination of cancer prevention and control opportunities in primary health care delivery settings, including a review of interventions aimed at improving provider performance. Reviews of professional education and training programs, research trends and opportunities, and federal programs that support cancer prevention and early detection. This in-depth volume will be of interest to policy analysts, cancer and public health specialists, health care administrators and providers, researchers, insurers, medical journalists, and patient advocates.

Mammography Wars
Mammography Wars

Author: Asia Friedman

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2023-06-16

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1978830653

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Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews with women ages 40 to 50, and newspaper coverage of mammography, Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the “mammography wars,” offering insights into the entrenched nature of debates over mammography that often get missed when applying a medical lens. Friedman’s analysis also suggests the sociology of attention’s unique potential for analyzing cultural conflicts beyond mammography, and even beyond medicine.

Breast Imaging
Breast Imaging

Author: Etta D. Pisano

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9789051994162

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The title of this work, Breast Imaging, reflects the intellectual expansion of the field that previously was limited to standard mammography. NMR, Sestimibi scanning, EPR, and optical imaging are all adding to the richness of approaches directed at the early detection of breast cancer. These approaches put us in the enviable position of asking which technologies are the most specific (not just the most sensitive), and which are the most cost effective (and not simply most useful). This book, edited by Dr. Etta Pisano, discusses the key questions and discoveries in breast imaging through a series of timely essays. (We hope that you will enjoy their collective message.)

Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer

Author: NA NA

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-23

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1137037792

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Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a book about breast cancer as a biological disease, its diagnosis and treatment, or the latest research to cure it. Rather, it looks at how economics, politics, gender, social class, and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and defined and influenced women s experiences with breast cancer. The contributors address the social construction of breast cancer as an illness and as an area of scientific controversy, advocacy, and public policy. Chapters on the history of breast cancer, the health care system, the environment, and the marketing of breast cancer, among others, tease apart the complex social forces that have shaped our collective and individual responses to breast cancer.

National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on Breast Cancer Screening for Women Ages 40-49
National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on Breast Cancer Screening for Women Ages 40-49

Author: John Kenneth Gohagan

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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Breast cancer screening controversy - Breast cancer screening, women in their forties - What do women want to know?(information) - Screening fundamentals - Study design of randomized controlled clinical trials of breast cancer screening - Periodic screening for breast cancer : the HIP Randomized Controlled Trial (Sam Shapiro) - The Edinburgh Randomized Trial of Breast Cancer Screening - The Canadian National Breast Screening Study : update on breast cancer mortality - Swedish two-county trial : the effects of age, histologic type, and mode of detection on the efficacy of breast cancer screening - The Stockholm mammographic screening trial : risks and benefits in age group 40-49 years. - The Gotheburg Breast Cancer Screening Trial : preliminary results.. - Updated overview of the Swedish Randomized Trials on Breast Cancer Screening with mammography - Reduced breast cancer mortality ... updated results from the Malmo mammographic screening program - Variation in the effectiveness of breast screening by year of follow-up - The Quality and interpretation of mammographic screening trials for women ages 40-49 Markov models - Breast cancer screening outcomes - Radiation risk - The psychosocial consequences of mammography - nonpalpable breast cancer - Incresaes in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)

Radical
Radical

Author: Kate Pickert

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0316470333

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In this "powerful and unflinching page-turner" (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast cancer. As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at the age of 35. As she underwent more than a year of treatment, Pickert realized that the popular understanding of breast care in America bears little resemblance to the experiences of today's patients and the rapidly changing science designed to save their lives. After using her journalistic skills to navigate her own care, Pickert embarked on a quest to understand the cultural, scientific and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age. Breast cancer is one of history's most prolific killers. Despite billions spent on research and treatments, it remains one of the deadliest diseases facing women today. From the forests of the Pacific Northwest to an operating suite in Los Angeles to the epicenter of pink-ribbon advocacy in Dallas, Pickert reports on the turning points and people responsible for the progress that has been made against breast cancer and documents the challenges of defeating a disease that strikes one in eight American women and has helped shape the country's medical culture. Drawing on interviews with doctors, economists, researchers, advocates and patients, as well as on journal entries and recordings collected over the author's treatment, Radical puts the story of breast cancer into context, and shows how modern treatments represent a long overdue shift in the way doctors approach cancer -- and disease -- itself.