[Handbook of Cancer Risk Assessment and Prevention] is useful not only to healthcare providers but also to the general population. Teachers and graduate students will benefit from the well-organized gold mine of current information…Over 50% of all cancers in the United States could theoretically be prevented. This handbook…can help make this possible.

Jong Park, Ph.D.
Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
July/August 2004, Vol. 11, No. 4

 

“Colditz and Stein's (both Harvard School of Public Health) text is designed to provide health care providers at all levels with reliable, up-to-date information on 14 of the most common cancers and ways to prevent them.  In addition to detailed chapters on each of the 14 cancers, the text includes sections on risk and risk communication, behavioral factors that affect disease risk, and risk assessment tools for each of the 14 cancers, as well as a glossary of terms and an extensive list of references organized by the 14 cancers and general cancer- related topics (cancer statistics, tobacco prevention and cessation, healthy weight, physical activity, screening).”

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