Abstract
This book is a compact, concise, and precise manual addressed to primary care physician. In roughly 250 pages, there is a good bit of philosophy and facts that make up today's principles of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in management of malignant disease. As authors state in preface, book is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise or treatment manual, but an attempt to explain biological basis for each nonsurgical cancer therapy. The chapters begin with a part on pathophysiology and backbones of basic oncology, followed by a section on rationale of treatment, as dictated by events that occur at cancer tissue level and in host bearing cancer. The inevitable hazards of treatment, including reactions and possible complications of nonsurgical cancer therapy, are placed in proper perspective by stating that the worst complication of cancer therapy is persistence or recurrence of
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