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Previous Volume 341:1245-1246 October 14, 1999 Number 16

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(Cancer Treatment and Research.) Edited by Al. B. Benson, III. 391 pp., illustrated. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1999. $365. ISBN 0-7923-8205-6.

Cancer of the gastrointestinal tract is the leading cause of death from cancer worldwide. In the United States, it is second only to lung cancer as a cause of death and accounts for almost 150,000 deaths per year. Because it is so common, all clinicians need some familiarity with the usual presentation and diagnostic evaluation of patients in whom this type of cancer is suspected. Patients with established gastrointestinal cancer require integrated care from physicians in multiple subspecialties. Traditionally, surgeons, radiation oncologists, and medical oncologists assumed primary responsibility for discrete phases of the disease process. Usually, a patient's first stop . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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