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CANCER DIAGNOSIS IN PRIMARY CARE
Cancer Diagnosis in Primary Care
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Edited By
William Hamilton, MD, FRCP, FRCGP, Senior Research Fellow, Division of Primary Care, University of Bristol, UK
Tim Peters, BSc, MSc, PhD, CStat, ILTM, FFPH, Hon FRCSLT, Professor of Primary Care Health Services Research, Deputy Head of the Department of Community Based Medicine, Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Description
One quarter of UK deaths are from cancer, and the large majority of these tumours initially present to primary care. The aim of the book is to inform primary care clinicians about the way cancer presents to primary care, and how they can select patients for investigation. It includes chapters on screening, systemic symptoms (which may be present with a number of cancers), and the terms used in cancer epidemiology. A final section of 'case-studies' offers an important opportunity for teaching or self-assessment.

Contents
1 Introduction

2 Evaluating Risk – Concepts and Terminology

3 Screening and Early Diagnosis of Cancer

4 Non-specific Symptoms

5 Breast Cancer

6 Colorectal Cancer

7 Lung Cancer

8 Urological Cancer

9 Skin Cancers

10 Ovarian Cancer

11 Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers

12 Gynaecological Cancers

13 Brain Tumours

14 Childhood Cancer

15 Haematological Malignancies

16 Testicular Cancer

17 Head, Neck and Thyroid Cancers

18 Case Histories

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 208 pages, publication date: JAN-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10367-4
ISBN-10: 0-443-10367-4
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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