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Handbook of Cancer Risk Assessment and Prevention
Graham A. Colditz, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Cynthia J. Stein, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
ISBN-13: 9780763718831
ISBN-10: 0763718831
$52.95 (Sugg. US List)
Paperback
343 Pages
© 2004
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Handbook format, with multiple sections and consistent presentation, makes book user-friendly and allows readers to fully comprehend cancer risk:
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Opening chapter on risk and risk communication provides solid background.
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Inclusion of several risk tables -- A risk table at the beginning of each cancer chapter helps providers put the risk of individual cancers in perspective.
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Inclusion of risk assessment tools -- Found at the end of the book, these tools help providers and patients estimate the risk of cancer and identify methods of reducing that risk.
Fourteen chapters each focus on an individual cancer and associated risk factors.
Clear and practical recommendations to patients are provided at the beginning of each chapter.
A short background section on each cancer in the United States is followed by a concise risk factor summary, which provides a brief description of each risk factor and its association with cancer.
Five chapters on specific behaviors that influence multiple cancers and other chronic diseases.
Each chapter provides practical suggestions to providers to promote risk reduction and help patients make healthy lifestyle choices.
Your Cancer Risk (www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu) -- comprehensive Web resource developed at the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention -- offers an interactive tool for individuals who wish to learn more about cancer risk and strategies to reduce that risk.
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