Cancer
By: editors, Hellen Gelband, Prabhat Jha, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Susan Horton
Contributors: World Bank
Series: Disease control priorities -- volume 3; Disease control priorities -- v. 3
Publisher: The World Bank
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781464803499; 9781464803505; 9781464803697
Subjects: Neoplasms; Health Services Research; Prevention & control; Cost of Illness; Economics; Developing Countries
Work titles: Cancer (Gelband)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Summary and recommendations; title: The changing global burden of cancer : transitions in human development and implications for cancer prevention and control; title: Breast cancer; title: Cervical cancer; title: Oral cancer : prevention, early detection, and treatment; title: Colorectal cancer; title: Treating childhood cancer in low- and middle-income countries; title: Liver cancer; title: Cancer pain relief; title: Global hazards of tobacco and the benefits of smoking cessation and tobacco taxes; title: Cancer services and the comprehensive cancer center; title: Screening for cancer : considerations for low- and middle-income countries; title: Surgical services for cancer care; title: Radiation therapy for cancer; title: Need for national commitments to cancer research to guide public health investment and practice; title: Cancer in low- and middle-income countries : an economic overview; title: Financing cancer care in low-resource settings; title: An extended cost-effectiveness analysis of publicly financed HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer in China.