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Edited by Franco Cavalli, Heine H. Hansen, and Stanley B. Kaye. 516 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1997. $120. ISBN 1-85317-290-1.

Medical oncology is a relatively new field of medicine in Europe. I remember going on rounds in a large Dutch hospital in the late 1970s with an attending physician from the United States, who suggested obtaining a consultation with a medical oncologist; we did not know whom to ask. Many of us who later became medical oncologists found our education and training in the very few specialized European hospitals or in the big American cancer centers. Only in the 1980s did medical oncology establish its place among the respected medical specialties in Europe. The European Society for Medical Oncology was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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