
Reviews
As an oncologist and caregiver of a spouse with cancer, I felt very close to the issues raised and the coverage of the subject matter. I hope that this book will reach a broad audience to stimulate an open discussion on this topic.
In a highly engaging exposition of the emperor of nosophobias, Ropeik details how the gravity force of cancerphobia warps risk perception, leading to personal or societal harms and legislative misdirection. He provides tools to avoid fear-dominated fast thinking and to employ slow thinking techniques to reach the goal of informed health decisions by patients, healthcare professionals, and policymakers.
In his timely and important new book, David Ropeik shines a bright light on how misperceptions about cancer risks can lead to large costs to individuals and society. Ropeik has done the research and knows how to tell a compelling story. Curing Cancerphobia illustrates how the medical and public health communities can combat the problem, and how all of us can make more informed everyday decisions.
Book Details
Preface
Part One
1. The Historic Roots of Our Fear of Cancer
2. Risk as a Feeling
Part Two
3. Overscreening, Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment: An Overview
4. When Worry Causes Us to Do Too Much: Breast Cancer
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Preface
Part One
1. The Historic Roots of Our Fear of Cancer
2. Risk as a Feeling
Part Two
3. Overscreening, Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment: An Overview
4. When Worry Causes Us to Do Too Much: Breast Cancer
5. When Worry Causes Us to Do Too Much: Prostate Cancer
6. When Worry Causes Us to Do Too Much: Thyroid Cancer
7. When Worry Causes Us to Do Too Much: Lung Cancer
8. When Worry Causes Us to Do Too Much: Colorectal Cancer
9. When Fear Scares Us Out of Doing Enough: Underscreening
10. When Fear Scares Us Out of Doing Enough: Delayed Diagnosis
11. The Stunning Economic Cost of Our Sometimes Excessive Fear of Cancer
12. Environmentalism's Contribution to Our Fear of Cancer
13. Other Societal Impacts of Our Fear of Cancer
14. Combatting Cancerphobia
15. Combatting Cancerphobia Yourself
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index