Publisher's Synopsis
Many books dealing with cancer research confine themselves to narrow fields and are of interest only to specialists working in the same area. In contrast, this book makes its topics widely available. It deals with the causes of cancer, viruses and cancer, changes in gene organization in human cancer, regulation of growth of animal cells, tumor metastasis and methods of tumor detection, the treatment of cancer, care of cancer patients and cancer as a biological phenomenon. The clear style in which this book is written, the avoidance of technical terms that are not widely understood and the glossaries at the end of each chapter help experts in various fields of cancer research to understand, evaluate and use each other's results.
