Nenad Markovic, Olivera Markovic

What Every Woman Should Know about Cervical Cancer

Revised and Updated

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book (anupdated and extended edition) is about mobilizing women and health care policymakers and providers to unite their efforts in a single strategy for fightingcervical cancer worldwide. The objective of this strategy would be to reversecervical cancer prevalence and mortality rates among all 2.4 billion women atrisk and to achieve this goal within 10-15 years of implementation. CervicalCancer Screening (Pap test, VIA, VILI, or HPV) failed to stop cervical cancerworldwide simply because many countries could not afford developinginfrastructure necessary to carry on the global strategy, and because theoutreach could not accomplish the targeted 51% of the population at risk. In2015, there is still 600,000 women getting cervical cancer annually and 300,000of them die. Every minute one woman gets cervical cancer and every 2 minutesone woman dies from this preventable disease.

In 21st Centurythe Information Technology (IT) Revolution has made substantial impact onmedicine enabling remote points-of care, scattered around the world, to bee-connected with experts in distant medical centers and to obtain qualitydiagnosis and proper guidelines for curative therapy of early stages ofcervical cancer. Low frequency of costly interventions needed makes IT-basedscreening financially and socially beneficial for mass screening.

This newMobile Health technology with the Global Strategy for Fighting Cervical Canceris subject to elaboration in our book as the new hope when old efforts havefailed to stop the world "epidemics" of this grave but preventable disease. Thelanguage is adapted for easy reading and understanding by professionals andlay-persons.

This book isintended for women at risk for cervical cancer, their health care providers,health insurance companies, government responsible for making health policy andhealthcare industry because all of them have special role in the new GlobalStrategy elaboratedin details in this book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-94-017-7559-5
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 572
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1063g
• ISBN-13: 9789401775595
• ISBN-10: 9401775591
• Artikelnr.: 44432369

Inhaltsangabe

Prelims.- Prologue.- The female reproductive system in health and disease.- Cervical cancer.- Living with cervical cancer.- Cervical cancer screening after 2008.- Global cervical cancer screening.- New strategy and its global application.- New tools: markpap platform technology illustrated.- References.- Annex.- Media.-Index

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Part I. The Female Reproductive System in Health And Disease. 1.1. Basic anatomy of the female reproductive system. 1.2 Basic physiology of the female reproductive system. 1.3. An overview of the most common women’s diseases. 1.4 Tumors of the female reproductive system.- Part II. Cervical Cancer and Precancerosis. What every woman must know about cervical cancer and why? 2.1 Cervical Cancer. 2.2 About cervical cancer and precancerosis in this book. 2.3 Epidemiology. 2.4 Prevention and control of cervical cancer. 2.5 Diagnosis and Treatment of Cervical Cancer. 2.6 Prognosis of cervical cancer and how to improve it.- Part III. Coping With Cervical Cancer. 3.1 Introduction to coping. Perception, motivation, action and support. 3.2 Living with cancer. What else can I do or learn to help myself? 3.3 Stories from real people. 3.4 Survey on what women think about Pap test. 3.5 Where to read more? Addresses, telephone numbers and Internet links. References.