FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 332:1655 June 15, 1995 Number 24 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited

Edited by John Terblanche. 672 pp., illustrated. Boston, Edward Arnold, 1994. $175. ISBN 0-340-588985.

The term "multidisciplinary" has become the buzzword for cancer care in the 1990s. Hepatobiliary cancers, although not particularly common in the United States, are very common worldwide. And no set of diseases requires more dexterity by clinicians, who have a dizzying array of unproved therapeutic approaches and innovative technological wizardry at their fingertips.

This textbook, with an international cast of contributors, assembles the literature spanning the fields of epidemiology, gastroenterology, hepatology, surgery, diagnostic and interventional radiology, radiation therapy, and medical oncology as they relate to hepatobiliary cancers. To review it, I called on my colleagues in some of those specialties . . . [Full Text of this Article]

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.