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Edited by Irving M. Ariel and Anthony C. Cahan. 346 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1993. $85. ISBN 0-683-00255-4.

Breast-cancer management has of necessity become a multidisciplinary specialty. Not only is broad expertise from a number of disciplines required; most often, lifelong commitment to patients is essential to deal with dynamic therapeutic problems.

This 346-page treatise attempts to deal with the problems of the precancerous lesion and early breast cancer, a difficult task since both are hard-to-define and still-evolving concepts. The challenge facing the editors is therefore great. This book covers a spectrum of topics from cystic diseases of the breast to adjuvant therapy for stage I and II breast cancer. It perhaps attempts too much and ends up . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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