Table of Contents

Contributors
Foreword
David B. Abrams
Preface
Part I. Introduction to Behavioral Science and Cancer
Chapter 1: Overview, Current Status, and Future Directions
Suzanne M. Miller, Deborah J. Bowen, Robert T. Croyle, and Julia H. Rowland
Chapter 2: Trends in Modifiable Risk Factors for Cancer and the Potential for Cancer Prevention
Cynthia J. Stein and Graham A. Colditz
Chapter 3: Creation of a Framework for Public Health Intervention Design
Deborah J. Bowen, Carol Moinpour, Betti Thompson, M. Robyn Andersen, Hendrika Meischke, and Barb Cochrane
Part II. Methodology in Cancer Prevention and Control
Chapter 4: Designing and Evaluating Individual-Level Interventions for Cancer Prevention and Control
Susan J. Curry, David W. Wetter, Louis C. Grothaus, Jennifer B. McClure, and Stephen H. Taplin
Chapter 5: Design and Analysis of Group-Randomized Trials in Cancer Prevention and Control
David M. Murray, Sherri L. Pals, and Jonathan L. Blitstein
Chapter 6: Participation in Cancer Clinical Trials
Electra D. Paskett, Mira L. Katz, Cecilia R. DeGraffinreid, and Cathy M. Tatum
Chapter 7: Quality-of-Life Assessment in Cancer
Carolyn C. Gotay
Part III. Primary Prevention: Reducing Cancer Incidence
Chapter 8: Understanding and Communicating About Cancer Risk
Kevin D. McCaul, Renee E. Magnan, and Amanda Dillard
Chapter 9: Prevention of Tobacco Use
Robin Mermelstein and Sarah K. Wahl
Chapter 10: Interventions for Smoking Cessation
Lara K. Dhingra and Jamie S. Ostroff
Chapter 11: Interventions to Modify Dietary Behaviors for Cancer Prevention and Control
Marci Kramish Campbell, Jennifer Gierisch, and Lisa Sutherland
Chapter 12: Interventions to Modify Skin Cancer–Related Behaviors
David B. Buller
Chapter 13: Behavioral Science Applications to Gynecologic Cancer Prevention
Lari Wenzel, Astrid Reina-Patton, and Israel De Alba
Chapter 14: Interventions to Modify Physical Activity
Bernadine M. Pinto, Carolyn Rabin, and Georita M. Frierson
Part IV. Secondary Prevention: Early Detection of Cancer
Chapter 15: Behavioral Research in Cancer Screening
Sally W. Vernon, Jasmin A. Tiro, and Helen I. Meissner
Chapter 16: Psychological Consequences of Cancer Screening
Anne Miles, Jo Waller, and Jane Wardle
Chapter 17: Psychological Issues in Genetic Testing
Catherine Wang and Suzanne M. Miller
Part V. Tertiary Prevention: Treating Clinical Cancer
Chapter 18: Practitioner–Patient Communication in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Walter F. Baile, Joann Aaron, and Patricia A. Parker
Chapter 19: Behavioral Interventions for Side Effects Related to Cancer and Cancer Treatments
Gary R. Morrow, Joseph A. Roscoe, Karen M. Mustian, Jane T. Hickok, Julie L. Ryan, and Sara Matteson
Chapter 20: Psychosocial Response to Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Beth E. Meyerowitz and Sindy Oh
Chapter 21: Reduction of Psychosexual Dysfunction in Cancer Patients
Leslie R. Schover
Chapter 22: Family Care During Cancer Care
Barbara A. Given, Paula R. Sherwood, and Charles W. Given
Part VI. Quaternary Prevention: Cancer Survivorship
Chapter 23: The Experience of Survival for Patients: Psychosocial Adjustment
Catherine M. Alfano and Julia H. Rowland
Chapter 24: Physical Late Effects of Cancer: Implications for Care
Jacqueline Casillas and Patricia Ganz
Chapter 25: Psychosocial and Behavioral Issues in Cancer Survival in Pediatric Populations
Anne E. Kazak, Melissa A. Alderfer, and Alyssa M. Rodriguez
Chapter 26: Long-Term Effects of Cancer on Families of Adult Cancer Survivors
Laurel L. Northouse, Suzanne Mellon, Janet Harden, and Ann Schafenacker
Chapter 27: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Adult Cancer Survivors
Wendy Demark-Wahnefried and Noreen M. Aziz
Part VII. Future Directions in Behavioral Science and Cancer
Chapter 28: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity in Cancer
Michael Stefanek and Paige Green McDonald
Chapter 29: Translation of Research Into Public Health Practice
Carol R. White and Mark Dignan
Chapter 30: Transdisciplinary Social and Behavioral Research for Cancer Prevention
Colleen M. McBride
Chapter 31: Interactive Health Communications for Cancer Prevention and Control
Victor Strecher
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors

About the Author

Suzanne M. Miller, PhD, is senior member of the Division of Population Science at Fox Chase Cancer Center and the director of the Psychosocial and Behavioral Medicine Program, the Behavioral Core Facility, and the Behavioral Center of Excellence in Breast Cancer. She is also the director of the Intervention Development and Measurement Core of the Cancer Information Service Research Consortium. Her funded research focuses on applying biobehavioral principles to promote the uptake of cancer prevention and control technologies. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Behavioral Medicine and serves in leadership positions in the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the American Society of Preventive Oncology, and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. She received the Partners in Research Award from the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service and the Cancer Control Award from the American Cancer Society. Her most recent published volume, Individuals, Families, and the New Era of Genomics: Biopsychosocial Perspectives (2006), received a number of book awards.
 
Deborah J. Bowen, PhD, is a full professor and chair in the Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, at Boston University. Dr. Bowen is currently an investigator in the regional Cancer Prevention Network, focused on community-based research on cancer prevention targets. She is a coinvestigator on the regional Native American Community Health Network, a group of investigators and community health experts working to conduct research and training in Native American communities in the western United States. Dr. Bowen has been an investigator in the coordinating centers of three large multicenter prevention trials of health behavior change.
 
Robert T. Croyle, PhD, is the director of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute. Previously, he was the division's associate director for behavioral research. Before moving to the National Cancer Institute in 1998, Dr. Croyle was a professor of psychology and member of the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. Dr. Croyle received his PhD in social psychology from Princeton University and his BA in psychology from the University of Washington. His research has focused on psychological responses to risk-factor testing and screening. In 2002, Dr. Croyle received a Meritorious Research Service Commendation from the American Psychological Association Board of Scientific Affairs.
 
Julia H. Rowland, PhD, is the director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as well as a long-time clinician, researcher, and teacher in the area of psychosocial aspects of cancer. She has worked and conducted research among both pediatric and adult cancer survivors and their families, published broadly in psychooncology, and coedited the groundbreaking text Handbook of Psychooncology: Psychological Care of the Patient With Cancer (1989). Dr. Rowland received her PhD in developmental psychology from Columbia University and trained and worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City for many years. She served as founding director of the Psycho-Oncology Program at Georgetown University and the Lombardi Cancer Center prior to joining the NCI.