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by Jay Scott Cooper and Donald J. Pizzarell, 273 pp, with illus, $16.50, Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1980.

HELMUTH GOEPFERT, MD, Reviewer
Houston

Arch Otolaryngol. 1981;107(6):397-398.

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This book is a compact, concise, and precise manual addressed to the primary care physician. In roughly 250 pages, there is a good bit of philosophy and facts that make up today's principles of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the management of malignant disease. As the authors state in the preface, "The book is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise or treatment manual, but an attempt to explain the biological basis for each nonsurgical cancer therapy."

The chapters begin with a part on pathophysiology and the backbones of basic oncology, followed by a section on the rationale of treatment, as dictated by the events that occur at cancer tissue level and in the host bearing the cancer. The inevitable hazards of treatment, including reactions and possible complications of nonsurgical cancer therapy, are placed in proper perspective by stating that "the worst complication of cancer therapy is persistence or recurrence of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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