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Volume 330:1163 April 21, 1994 Number 16
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The Molecular Basis of Human Cancer

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Edited by Benjamin G. Neel and Ramesh Kumar. 491 pp., illustrated. Mt. Kisco, Futura, 1993. $95. Isbn 0-87993-554-5.

This excellent book, aimed at a general audience of clinical and laboratory professionals, contains 12 chapters by 14 young investigators active in the areas about which they write. The chapters are grouped according to classes of cancer-relevant genes for the most part, rather than according to organ site or disease category. The work is extremely well written, well produced, and filled with informative figures and tables. It is extensively referenced, with more than 1500 citations. Unfortunately, there are only occasional references from 1992, and none that I could find from 1993.

The potential reader should not be put off by . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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