Recent Advances in Clinical Oncology

Abstract

The problem in putting together an anthology of recent in any discipline is first to identify advances, an exercise that often is largely a matter of opinion and fashion, and then to be sure that those advances selected are indeed recent. For the most part, the editors of this book have succeeded, although there are a few surprising omissions—adjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer leaps to mind. Nevertheless, for the topics they did select, the editors' avowed purpose—for those with particular clinical or basic research interests in promising fields to present their work within the context of the whole—is well fulfilled. The book is organized into major subject areas, eg, new approaches and drugs, genitourinary tract tumors, lymphomas, anaplastic small cell carcinoma and other cancers, breast cancer, and psychosocial aspects of cancer. Articles within each topic range from the strictly investigational (eg, hyperthermia, clonogenic assay) to the well-tried and practical,