Cancer [electronic resource] / editors, Hellen Gelband, Prabhat Jha, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Susan Horton
- Uniform Title
- Cancer (Gelband)
- Published
- Washington, DC : The World Bank, [2015]
- Physical Description
- xvii, 341 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Gelband, Hellen, Jha, Prabhat, 1965-, Sankaranarayanan, R. (Rengaswamy), 1952-, Horton, Susan, and World Bank
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- Contents
- Summary and recommendations -- The changing global burden of cancer : transitions in human development and implications for cancer prevention and control -- Breast cancer -- Cervical cancer -- Oral cancer : prevention, early detection, and treatment -- Colorectal cancer -- Treating childhood cancer in low- and middle-income countries -- Liver cancer -- Cancer pain relief -- Global hazards of tobacco and the benefits of smoking cessation and tobacco taxes -- Cancer services and the comprehensive cancer center -- Screening for cancer : considerations for low- and middle-income countries -- Surgical services for cancer care -- Radiation therapy for cancer -- Need for national commitments to cancer research to guide public health investment and practice -- Cancer in low- and middle-income countries : an economic overview -- Financing cancer care in low-resource settings -- An extended cost-effectiveness analysis of publicly financed HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer in China.
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- ISBN
- 9781464803499 (softcover)
1464803498 (softcover)
9781464803505 (hardcover)
1464803501 (hardcover)
9781464803697 (electronics) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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