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Edited by Philip W. Kantoff, Peter R. Carroll, and Anthony V. D'Amico, with Ronald K. Ross, John T. Isaacs, and Howard I. Scher. 748 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. $169. ISBN 0-7817-2006-0.

It is a challenging enterprise to assemble a comprehensive textbook on prostate cancer that goes beyond what other books afford. Although there have been at least a dozen other treatises on the same or similar subjects, Prostate Cancer: Principles and Practice has achieved the goals outlined in its preface: a summary of basic science and its relation to clinical medicine and a state-of-the-art summary of the management of prostate cancer.

The student of the science of prostate cancer and the physician who treats men with the disease are challenged by an almost insurmountably complex disease process. This cancer affects one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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