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Title

  • Cancer

Names

  • Gelband, Hellen, editor.
  • Horton, Susan, editor.
  • Jha, Prabhat, 1965- , editor.
  • Sankaranarayanan, R. (Rengaswamy), 1952- , editor.
  • World Bank, issuing body.

Created / Published

  • Washington, DC : The World Bank, [2015]
  • ©2015

Contents

  • Summary and recommendations -- The changing global burden of cancer : transitions in human development and implications for cancer prevention and control -- Breast cancer -- Cervical cancer -- Oral cancer : prevention, early detection, and treatment -- Colorectal cancer -- Treating childhood cancer in low- and middle-income countries -- Liver cancer -- Cancer pain relief -- Global hazards of tobacco and the benefits of smoking cessation and tobacco taxes -- Cancer services and the comprehensive cancer center -- Screening for cancer : considerations for low- and middle-income countries -- Surgical services for cancer care -- Radiation therapy for cancer -- Need for national commitments to cancer research to guide public health investment and practice -- Cancer in low- and middle-income countries : an economic overview -- Financing cancer care in low-resource settings -- An extended cost-effectiveness analysis of publicly financed HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer in China.

Headings

  • -  Neoplasms--economics
  • -  Neoplasms--prevention & control
  • -  Cost of Illness
  • -  Developing Countries
  • -  Health Services Research--economics

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RC262

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019722522

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

World Bank, Issuing Body. Cancer. editeds by Gelband, Hellen, Horton, Susan, Jha, Prabhat, and Sankaranarayanan, R [Washington, DC: The World Bank, ©, 2015] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019722522/.

APA citation style:

World Bank, I. B., Gelband, H., Horton, S., Jha, P. & Sankaranarayanan, R., eds. (2015) Cancer. [Washington, DC: The World Bank, ©] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019722522/.

MLA citation style:

World Bank, Issuing Body. Cancer. ed by Gelband, Hellen, et al [Washington, DC: The World Bank, ©, 2015] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019722522/>.