Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Should I be tested for cancer? : maybe not and here's why / H. Gilbert Welch.
  
•    
• Author/Creator:Welch, H. Gilbert.
  
• Published/Created:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QZ201 .W442 2004
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Cancer--Popular works.
  Cancer--Diagnosis--Popular works.
  Medical screening--Popular works.
  
• Medical Subjects: Neoplasms--Popular Works.
  Neoplasms--diagnosis--Popular Works.
  
• Description:x, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:A nationally recognized expert on early cancer detection challenges the widely accepted beliefs: that the best defense against cancer is to try to catch it early, examining such common cancer screening tests as total body scans, mammograms, and prostate specific antigen (PSA) tests, and arguing that testing healthy people for cancer often has surprisingly little effect and is sometimes even harmful.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218) and index.
  
• ISBN:0520239768 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Problems you should know about.
  It is unlikely that you will benefit
  You may have a "cancer scare" and face an endless cycle of testing
  You may receive unnecessary treatment
  You may find a cancer you would rather not know about
  Your pathologist may say it's cancer, while others say it's not
  Your doctor may get distracted from other issues that are more important to you
  Pt. II. Becoming a better-educated consumer
  Understand the culture of medicine (and why we are pushed to test)
  Understand the statistics of cancer (and why five-year survival is the world's most misleading number
  Understand the limits to research; even genetic research (and why it is hard to be sure there really are benefits to screening
  Develop a strategy that works for you.