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Edited by Darrell S. Rigel, Robert J. Friedman, Leonard M. Dzubow, Douglas S. Reintgen, Jean-Claude Bystryn, and Robin Marks. 711 pp., illustrated, with CD-ROM. Philadelphia, Saunders, 2005. $179. ISBN 0-7216-0544-3.

Despite advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and understanding of the causes of skin cancer, the incidence of cutaneous neoplasms continues to increase: there were more than 1.3 million reported cases in the United States in 2004. It is now estimated that a cutaneous neoplasm will develop in one in five persons born in the United States. Although the overwhelming majority of these neoplasms are basal-cell carcinomas and squamous-cell carcinomas, there were almost 60,000 cases of melanoma this past year.

Considering the scope of the problem, relatively few textbooks deal with the entire spectrum of cancers of the skin. This excellent . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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