书目名称 | Cancer Prevention II |
编辑 | Hans-Jörg Senn,Ursula Kapp,Florian Otto |
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概述 | Includes supplementary material: |
丛书名称 | Recent Results in Cancer Research |
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描述 | More than 180 participants and experts from 31 countries met for the fifth time in 10 years in St. Gallen, Switzerland for a 3-day conference to discuss important current issues of clinical cancer prevention. The meeting was again organized and co-sponsored by St. Gallen Oncology Conferences (SONK). While SONK has been extremely successful in organizing large international c- gresses on “Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer” as well as “Supportive Care in Cancer” for more than 20 years, the idea of promoting interdisciplinary, clinically oriented meetings on cancer prevention is a more recent and not yet generally accepted and w- comed concept in modern oncology. Since today’s medical expenses are soaring and me- cal research budgets are stagnating or even being cut, neither politicians nor industry is willing to risk an additional unpredictable channel of expenses, such as that demanded by clinical cancer prevention efforts! In Switzerland—and we fear in many other parts of the globe—some 97%–98% or even a greater percentage of health budgets is spent for curative and palliative/rehabilitative m- icine. Since a meager 2%–3% of national health budgets is for preventive medicine, |
出版日期 | Conference proceedings 2009 |
关键词 | ER-negative breast cancer; Prevention of breast cancer; Primary prevention; cancer prevention; chemoprev |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69297-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-08881-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-540-69297-3Series ISSN 0080-0015 Series E-ISSN 2197-6767 |
issn_series | 0080-0015 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 |