(Neurological Disease and Therapy. Vol. 37.) Edited by Ronald G. Wiley. 550 pp., illustrated. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1995, $185. ISBN 0-8247-8840-0.
Fully one fifth of patients with cancer experience neurologicdifficulties. In addition to the 100,000 patients whose systemicneoplasms invade the brain, the spinal cord, or their coverings,an equal number experience the neurologic toxic effects of treatmentwith drugs or radiation or the nonmetastatic effects of cancer.The clinical pictures involved in these afflictions are oftenesoteric and obscured by the jargon of neurologists. In themodern era, the "gate keeper" physician needs a clear, concisedesktop guide to these syndromes. Neurological Complicationsof Cancer is such a book; it honors Dr. Jerome Posner, who hasmade a mission . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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