Publisher's Synopsis
In the last decade, the field of cancer prevention and control has matured. This book offers testimony to that progress by presenting a cross-section of reports from several different areas of cancer detection and treatment research. By focusing on the results of community-based prevention and control intervention programs, it depicts a number of paradigms that community hospitals have developed for clinical research programs utilizing the diverse contributions of oncologists, nurses and social workers.;The text addresses the issues of basic biochemistry and molecular oncology as they relate to possible cancer prevention and intervention programs.