Guiding Cancer Control: A Path to Transformation - Softcover

National Academies Of Sciences, Engineering, And Medicine; Health And Medicine Division; Board On Health Care Services; Committee On A National Strategy For Cancer Control In The United States

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309492319 ISBN 13: 9780309492317

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2019

Synopsis

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 complexâ€"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.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Summary
• 1 Complexity: From Cells to Society
• 2 The Current "System" of Cancer Control
• 3 Guiding the System of Cancer Control
• 4 A Path to Transformation
• Appendix A: Stakeholder Input
• Appendix B: Biographical Information
• Appendix C: Disclosure of Unavoidable Conflict of Interest

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0309492319
• ISBN 13: 9780309492317
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Nass Sharyl J., Amankwah Francis K., Madhavan Guru, Johns Michael M. E.