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Second edition. Edited by David Schottenfeld and Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. 1521 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $195. ISBN 0-19-505354-0.

The first edition of this book, published in 1982, provided a comprehensive review of the work of a generation of cancer epidemiologists and the application of their findings to the prevention and early detection of cancer. Before the publication of the first edition, the only work of similar scope and stature was the monograph by Johannes Clemmesen (Acta Pathologica et Microbiologica Scandinavica Supplement 174 I, 1965). Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention became an essential reference for cancer epidemiologists and other cancer researchers. The second edition of the book extends the knowledge base by a further 14 years.

The first edition . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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