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Confronting Cancer P. Selby

Confronting Cancer By P. Selby

Confronting Cancer by P. Selby


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The purpose of this book is to increase the awareness of interested laymen of the potential for reducing cancer mortality by relatively simple measures. There are three principal points: avoiding risk factors; making use of early diagnostic methods; and management of established cancers.

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Confronting Cancer: Cause and Prevention by P. Selby

The main purpose of this book is to increase the awareness of interested laymen of the considerable potential for reducing cancer mortality by relatively simple measures. There are three principal points: avoiding risk factors; making use of early diagnostic methods; and management of established cancers. This book is an attempt to remove some of the doubts most of us have about this taboo subject.

Table of Contents

List of Figures. Foreword by Sir Walter Bodmer, PhD, FRCPath, FRS. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. What is Cancer?. 3. The Causes of Cancer. 4. Smoking and Cancer. 5. Diet and Cancer. 6. Skin, Sunlight and Melanoma. 7. Radiation and Cancer. 8. Sex, Hormones and Reproduction. 9. Cancer, the Workplace and Environmental Pollution. 10. Inherited Cancer - the New Genetics. 11. The Mind, Society and Cancer. 12. Cancer and Infections - the Anti-cancer Vaccination?. 13. Screening for Cancer. 14. How Much Cancer is Preventable?. 15. Practical Advice. 16. What Does the Future Hold?. 17. Government, Individuals and the National Health Service. Index.

Additional information

CIN0140143017A
9780140143010
0140143017
Confronting Cancer: Cause and Prevention by P. Selby
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19930930
272
N/A
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