Abstract
The American Association for Cancer Education was founded in 1966, around the nationally subsidized Coordinators of Cancer Education. A self-assessment syllabus was prepared in 1976 and expanded a few years later into the presentConcepts. The 46-chapter, 700-page volume is divided into three major sections: basic science, clinical detection and support, and site-specific tumors. Annotated references and self-assessment problems and answers conclude almost every chapter. The sponsorship, relationship to official agencies, and similar backgrounds of the 48 contributors (exactly half being from the University of Wisconsin) guarantee orthodox positions, supported by rather pat answers to the problems. It would have been desirable to expand on truly controversial issues, rather than options. And, of course,Conceptsreflects the therapeutic overkill that typifies modern medicine. How can an asymptomatic patient with pulmonary metastases of melanoma accept a no treatment option (p 295) when aggressiveness is urged on the physician (p 385), even
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