3rd edition. RW Ruddon. 511 pages. New York: Oxford Univ Pr; 1995. $47.95. ISBN 0-19-509691-6. Order phone 800-451-7556.
A detailed survey of generic cancer: characteristics, epidemiology, genotypic and phenotypic characteristics, changes in cellular differentiation, causes, oncogenes, tumor-suppressor genes, growth factors, signal transduction mechanisms, cell-cycle regulation, the biology of metastasis, host-tumor interactions, tumor immunology, gene-targeted therapy, and prevention. This edition takes into account the substantial progress that has been made in cancer biology since the second edition (1987). Thoroughly documented and carefully indexed.
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