(American Cancer Society Atlas of Clinical Oncology.) Edited by Robert F. Ozols. 246 pp., illustrated, with CD-ROM. Hamilton, Ont., Canada, BC Decker, 2003. $129. ISBN 1-55009-096-8.
Oncologists tend, by nature and occupation, to be optimists,whereas pathologists are more inclined to be pessimists; toput it another way, oncologists are romantics, whereas pathologistsare realists. Thus, oncologists point out that in the past fewdecades substantial progress has been made in the treatmentof ovarian cancer, but pathologists, including me, note thatthe survival rate among patients with this disease has remainedunchanged for the past quarter of a century. Both, of course,are right: five-year survival rates are incrementally, albeitslowly, increasing, and our basic understanding of the diseaseis rapidly evolving, but the survival . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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