Cancer screening programmes have become routine practice throughout the developed world – aiming to detect the presence of the disease prior to the manifestation of symptoms, and to increase the likelihood of successful treatment. Naturally, these programmes require regular monitoring to ensure that screening quality is maintained, and to advance the early-warning system as much as possible. Quantitative Methods for the Evaluation of Cancer Screening is a professional title designed to provide the researchers of these screening programmes with up-to-date methods and tools for improving evaluation. The book presents an introduction to cancer screening and to the methods that are employed for its monitoring, followed by an in-depth account of the more complicated modelling approaches. Each chapter is written by an international expert in the field, and imparts practical specialist information that the reader can apply to the evaluation of their own programmes. Case studies illustrate the methods in practice and provide further illumination of the fields of breast, cervix, large bowel, and neuroblastoma screening.
By:
Stephen W. Duffy
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd
Dimensions:
Height: 15mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 238mm
Weight: 397g
ISBN: 9780470689271
ISBN 10: 0470689277
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 01 June 2001
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contributors Preface 1. Introduction and brief history of cancer screening evaluation techniques Stephen W. Duffy, Jacques Esteve, Catherine Hill and Nicholas E. Day 2. Important influences on effectiveness and costs to be considered in the evaluation of cancer screening Rob, Boer, Harry J. de Koning, Marjolein van Ballegooijen and Paul J. van der Maas 3. Contamination and non-compliance in screening trials Jack Cuzick 4. Evaluating periodic cancer screening without a randomised control group: a simplified design and analysis Stuart G. Baker 5. Markov chain models of breast tumour progression and its arrest by screening Stephen W. Duffy, Hsiu-Hsi Chen, Teresa C. Prevost and Laszlo Tabar 6. Metastases at diagnosis: a key to understanding the natural history of breast cancer Serge Koscielny, Ariane Auquier and Catherine Hill 7. Use of an illness-death model to predict the effects of different breast screening intervals Hsiu-Hsi Chen, Ming-Fang Yen and Laszlo Tabar 8. Screening evaluation and monitoring: some practical considerations Jenny McCann and Diane Stockton 9. Use of routine data to monitor and evaluate cervical screening Peter D. Sasieni 10. Interpretation of the effect of population screening using routine incidence and mortality data Timo Hakulinen 11. Optimal use of Pap smear screening for cervical cancer Stephen D. Walter 12. Population-based breast cancer screening programmes: estimates of sensitivity, over-diagnosis and early prediction of the benefit Eugenio Paci, Stephen W. Duffy, Daniela Giorgi, Teresa C. Prevost and Marco Rosselli del Turco 13. Assessment of a colorectal cancer screening programme taking account of the natural history of the disease Guy Launoy and Teresa C. Prevost 14. Screening for neuroblastoma in children: insight gained from the modeling of various screening strategies Jacques Esteve, Stephen W. Duffy and Catherine Hill Index
Stephen W. Duffy is the author of Quantitative Methods of Evaluation of Cancer Screening, published by Wiley.
