| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF file (xiv, 160 pages)) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Consensus study report
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Consensus study report.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Funding |
This activity was supported by grants from the American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization that provided support for the project. |
| Contents |
Summary -- Complexity : from cells to society -- The current "system" of cancer control -- Guiding the system of cancer control -- A path to transformation -- Appendixes |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cancer -- United States -- Prevention.
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Cancer. |
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United States. |
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Medical policy. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Technical reports.
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Technical reports.
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| Added Author |
Johns, Michael M. E., editor.
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Madhavan, Guruprasad, editor.
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Amankwah, Francis, editor.
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Nass, Sharyl J., editor.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on a National Strategy for Cancer Control in the United States, issuing body.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Guiding Cancer Control : A Path to Transformation. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2019 9780309492317 (OCoLC)1105717642 |
| ISBN |
9780309492317 |
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0309492319 |
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9780309492324 (online) |
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0309492327 (online) |
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9780309492348 (electronic book) |
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0309492343 (electronic book) |
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