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Previous Volume 356:1189-1190 March 15, 2007 Number 11

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Edited by Jim Cassidy, Patrick Johnston, and Eric Van Cutsem. 349 pp., illustrated. New York, Informa Healthcare, 2007. $199.95. ISBN 978-0-8247-2835-9.

For the clinician or scientist steeped in the details of a disease, single-topic books on the disease can often be disappointing. By their very nature, books of this sort take months or even years to appear on bookstore shelves, making it nearly impossible to include recent developments. Moreover, an effort to generalize may shorten and oversimplify the discussion of complex and controversial issues.

Despite those handicaps, Colorectal Cancer is a successful effort at highlighting what is known, and what is not known, about this disease. Edited by three European medical oncologists with expertise in colorectal cancer, the book is, as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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