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Cancer Medicine

R. James,Oncology Ed M Willoughby,C. Howarth

Published 1982 in British Journal of Cancer

ABSTRACT

This book is the second in a series intended to keep practitioners abreast of their subjects; the first volume was published in 1980. It contains excellent chapters on radiofrequency treatment and tumour markers, where the experimental basis of the technique is balanced by an appraisal of its practical value in the clinic. This balance seemed to be lacking in a long chapter on immunotherapy, with 250 references, and one on interstitial irradiation which contained 44 full page plates illustrating technique. In both I could find no clear statement of the future of such methods in clinical management. In two short chapters on retinoblastoma and histopatho-logical accuracy I could find little reference to original experimental work or new advances. The balance is obviously difficult to strike in a review article, and the choice of subject for a book of this type even more difficult. It is perhaps worth noting that some of these reviews, often by the same authors, are already in the literature and can easily be turned up by a computer search. This book brings them together under one cover, but at a slightly higher cost. This book, the first of a series, contains 13 articles which have been selected as major areas of active interest in Paediatric Oncology/Haematology. The Editors express the hope that the book will be "explanatory and stimulating" to those "engaged in clinical practice and research within this growing branch of paediatrics." However, in this country, to most people the book covers two branches and hence it is difficult to define a potential group of readers. The bias is toward pure haematology with 6 chapters relating to non-oncological haematology. Five chapters could be designated of mutual interest, those on extra-medullary leukaemia, immuno-logical surface markers, histiocytoses, psycho-social problems and bone marrow transplantation. (The contents of the latter being less exciting than the implication of the chapter heading.) Classical oncology itself gets short shrift, with 2 general chapters on the importance of multidisciplinary management and the problems of radiotherapy in the young. It is unlikely that many people will have sufficient general interest to read both "Radiotherapy in Paediatric Oncology" and "Home Therapy in Haemophilia" and also require the detailed review of extramedullary leukaemia from Dr Eden or the well integrated review on the subject of haemo-paedic stem and progenitor cells from Dr Peschle. The U.S. influence on the book also means that certain points in the …

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