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Edited by Alfred M. Cohen and Sidney J. Winawer, with Michael A. Friedman and Leonard L. Gunderson. 1154 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1994. $125. ISBN 0-07-011601-6.

Dear Uncle,

Thank you very much for the wonderful book on elephants you sent me for my birthday. It told me more than I ever wanted to know about elephants.

Your niece

While settling down on many occasions to the task of reviewing this large book on neoplasia of the large intestine, I thought of that apocryphal little girl. But after completing the review, I had feelings quite the opposite of hers, although words such as "tome," "comprehensive," and even "exhaustive" kept coming to mind as I read through 109 chapters and a total of 1154 pages.

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