Edited by Amir V. Kaisary, Gerald P. Murphy, Louis Denis, and Keith Griffiths. 367 pp., illustrated. London, Martin Dunitz, 1999. £75. ISBN 1-85317-422-X.
For nearly three quarters of a century, it has been recognizedthat more than 30 percent of men over 50 years of age harbora latent form of prostatic adenocarcinoma that is detected onlyon postmortem examination. Yet the rates of detection in populationsof men screened with digital rectal examination, measurementof serum prostate-specific antigen, or both are only 1 to 5percent. Still, clinically detected prostate cancer is the mostcommon noncutaneous cancer in American men and the third mostcommon cancer in men worldwide. Many men with prostate cancerdie with this neoplasm rather than of it, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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