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Screening for breast cancer / edited by Elizabeth Parvin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Introducing health sciencesPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Milton Keynes [England] : Oxford University Press ; In association with the Open University, 2007Description: xi, 121 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm + 1 videodisc (12 cm)Content type:
  • text
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • unmediated
  • video
Carrier type:
  • volume
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0199237336
  • 9780199237333
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.9944907572 22
LOC classification:
  • RG493.5.R33 S37 2007
Contents:
1. Screening for disease / Basiro Davey and Jeanne Katz -- 2. What is breast cancer? / Carol Midgley -- 3. Risk factors for breast cancer / Basiro Davey and Carol Midgley -- 4. Mammography / Elizabeth Parvin -- 5. Interpreting the mammograms / Peter Naish and Kevin McConway -- 6. Following up a positive test result / Carol Midgley -- 7. Benefits risks and costs of screening / Elizabeth Parvin and Bundy Mackintosh -- 8. Conclusions / Elizabeth Parvin.
Review: "Screening for Breast Cancer begins by setting out the principles of effective screening programmes, and reviews variatiosn in the incidence of breast cancer in different countries and age-groups to shed light on the major risk factors. This leads to the study of the normal and abnormal biology on which breast cancer diagnosis depends."--BOOK JACKET.
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Item type Current library Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 616.9944907572 SCR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A377074B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 616.9944907572 SCR DVD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DVD 1 Available A458531B

Accompanied by: 1 videodisc (DVD)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Screening for disease / Basiro Davey and Jeanne Katz -- 2. What is breast cancer? / Carol Midgley -- 3. Risk factors for breast cancer / Basiro Davey and Carol Midgley -- 4. Mammography / Elizabeth Parvin -- 5. Interpreting the mammograms / Peter Naish and Kevin McConway -- 6. Following up a positive test result / Carol Midgley -- 7. Benefits risks and costs of screening / Elizabeth Parvin and Bundy Mackintosh -- 8. Conclusions / Elizabeth Parvin.

"Screening for Breast Cancer begins by setting out the principles of effective screening programmes, and reviews variatiosn in the incidence of breast cancer in different countries and age-groups to shed light on the major risk factors. This leads to the study of the normal and abnormal biology on which breast cancer diagnosis depends."--BOOK JACKET.

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