For fifty years, the government has thrown billions of dollars into the “war on cancer,” producing some exceptional research but failing in the fundamental mission: reducing tragically high death rates. Early Detection explains in a deeply researched but highly readable analysis how misguided policies have focused on treatments for late-stage cancers, with only modest success, rather than emphasizing greater use of screening to detect cancers in their earliest stages, when they can be treated and, often, cured, saving thousands of lives a year. This book urges new early detection policies that would finally turn around the faltering battle by sharply increasing screening rates and funding research to develop more cancer detection tests.
Bruce Ratner, a former New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, a real estate developer, and current Chair of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and Adam Bonislawski, a skilled medical writer, argue with passion and urgency that campaigns to increase early detection would slash death rates and help eliminate unacceptable disparities in screening and treatment between the more affluent versus lower income, minority, and rural communities.
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Nonfiction
Early Detection: Catching Cancer When It’s Curable
- From the Publisher
September 1, 2023
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