El objetivo principal de este libro es ayudar a los miembros del equipo de los laboratorios clínicos a entender los diferentes aspectos de la calidad que se logra en los análisis que realizan. Un objetivo secundario es proporcionar al campo que cubre la Medicina de laboratorio un libro adecuado sobre control de calidad y los tratamientos estadísticos adecuados que se necesitan.

La necesidad de contribuir al adiestramiento del personal de los laboratorios de control de calidad de la Red Latinoamericana, y de establecer un conjunto de normas basicas para la preparacion de manuales tecnicos de seguridad en los laboratorios, condujo a la planificacion y realizacion de un nuevo taller auspiciado por la Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud.

This book explores in depth the relation between physical activity and cancer control, including primary prevention, coping with treatments, recovery after treatments, long-term survivorship, secondary prevention, and survival. The first part of the book presents the most recent research on the impact of physical activity in preventing a range of cancers. In the second part, the association between physical activity and cancer survivorship is addressed. The effects of physical activity on supportive care endpoints (e.g., quality of life, fatigue, physical functioning) and disease endpoints (e.g., biomarkers, recurrence, survival) are carefully analyzed. In addition, the determinants of physical activity in cancer survivors are discussed, and behavior change strategies for increasing physical activity in cancer survivors are appraised. The final part of the book is devoted to special topics, including the relation of physical activity to pediatric cancer survivorship and to palliative cancer care.