Encyclopedia of cancer and society; 3v.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

9781412949897

Encyclopedia of cancer and society; 3v.

Ed. by Graham A. Colditz.

Sage Publications

2007

1616 pages

$375.00

Hardcover

RC254

In this three-volume encyclopedia, Colditz (Alvin J. Siteman Canter Center, Washington U. School of Medicine) presents 750 entries that are intended to advance understandings of cancer burdens in different countries, cancer causes, and strategies for prevention, especially as understood in the context of underlying societal forces that respond to or ignore the role of industries and social structures in increasing cancer risk. Thematically, the entries address cancer in society, business and economics of cancer, types of cancer, major cancer associations, associations by cancer type, other relevant associations, biographies of prominent international scientists, major hospitals and treatment centers, treatments and therapies, alternative treatments and therapies, known or suspected carcinogens and causes of cancer, prevention, and cancer by country. Entries typically include guides to further reading. Each volume includes a fifteen-page color medical atlas of cancer, a chronology, a glossary, and a cumulative index. The third volume adds a bibliographic resource guide and an appendix giving cancer statistics for the United States for 2003.

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