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Preventive strikes women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery

Title: Preventive strikes [electronic resource] : women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery / Ilana Löwy.
Author: Löwy, Ilana, 1948-
Publication: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

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Description

1 online resource (xi, 328 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Preventive strikes (Online)

Alternative Title

Preventive strikes (Online)

Subject

Cancer in women > Surgery > Social aspects
Precancerous conditions > Surgery > Social aspects
Breast > Cancer > Surgery > Social aspects
Ovaries > Cancer > Surgery > Social aspects
Social medicine

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Biopsy -- Classifications -- Borderline lesions -- In situ cancers -- The origins of screening -- The generalization of screening -- Heredity -- New surgical radicalism.

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