Ethical challenges in cancer diagnosis and therapy

Ethical challenges in cancer diagnosis and therapy / Axel W. Bauer, Ralf-Dieter Hofheinz, Jochen S. Utikal, editors.

"This book presents in detail the problems and ethical challenges in daily oncological practice. In western industrialized countries, roughly 25 percent of all citizens still die from cancer. Despite significant progress in basic science and in individual areas of clinical care, even in the 21s...

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Other Authors: Bauer, Axel (Editor), Hofheinz, Ralf-Dieter, 1969- (Editor), Utikal, Jochen S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Series:Recent results in cancer research ; 218.
Subjects:
Medical ethics.
Cancer > Diagnosis > Moral and ethical aspects.
Cancer > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Cancer > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics
Càncer.
Ètica mèdica.
Diagnòstic.
Oncologia.
Llibres electrònics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cancer as an ethical challenge
  • Historical aspects of the fight against cancer
  • One in four dies of cancer. Questions about the epidemiology of malignant tumors
  • Ethical issues related to human papillomavirus vaccination programs: an example from Bangladesh
  • Ethical challenges around cell lines in cancer research
  • Risk-adapted prevention. Governance perspective for benefits of genetic (breast cancer) risk
  • The right to know and not to know: predictive genetic diagnosis and non-diagnosis
  • Benefits and harms of cancer screening
  • Ethical dilemmas in conducting clinical trials
  • Ethical aspects in cancer drug approval, balancing individual versus societal perspectives
  • Liver living donation for cancer patients: benefits, risks, justification
  • Quality assurance of cancer medication and the challenge of biosimilars
  • Cancer in children
  • Pain and palliative medicine
  • Advance directives for medical decisions
  • Euthanasia and assisted suicide
  • Doctor's health and the health of caregivers
  • Diagnosis breast cancer. An ethnographic study of illness and disease
  • The patient's view
  • The patients' advocate
  • Cancer in literature.

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