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Cancer - Principles and Practice of Oncology, 5th Edition

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British Joumal of Cancer (1998) 77(11), 2058
© 1998 Cancer Research Campaign
Book Review
Cancer - Principles and Practice of
Oncology, 5th Edition
Edited by Vincent T De Vita Jr, Samuel Hellman and
Steven A Rosenberg. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 1997,
pp 3312, £1 60. ISBN 0 397 515731
The latest edition of this long-standing reference book, which was
first published in 1982, is now available in the single volume
extended to 3125 pages. There are 290 contributors, but within
each section a unity is retained dealing with, for example, the
clinical aspects of the tumours at the major sites, usually with up to
three joint authors. The fourth and final section is entitled 'Newer
approaches in cancer treatment' and includes nine authoritative
reviews of areas of current interest.
A volume such as this may be of interest to the laboratory scien-
tist but has the greatest value to the clinical oncologist, particularly
when dealing with an unusual situation arising in practice. For
this, fortunately, the index, which is triple columned on 92 pages,
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is clear and readily usable. In most cases, valuable information and
good advice is gained but, as is inevitable in a text that covers the
whole of an enormous field of knowledge, the reader is in some
areas overwhelmed by the information available, whereas at the
other extreme his other subject of interest may be impossible to
find despite the detail of the index. There can be no doubt
however, this volume, like previous editions, continues to serve as
a good source of information in oncology.
All the authors are drawn from North America and the practice
described is essentially North American. European readers
inevitably will find in certain areas a more vigorous or aggressive
approach to management than is customary and may need to make
adjustment accordingly. Those working in the Third World may
find the investigation and management advocated may be beyond
that attainable with their local resources. Perhaps the authors
might consider extending the international appeal of the book
when compiling the 6th edition.
R Hawkins