The biological basis of cancer

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 15
Introduction: Letters illustrating clinical aspects of cancer......Page 19
1 - The pathology of cancer......Page 32
2 - Invasion and metastasis......Page 69
3 - Carcinogenesis......Page 98
4 - Genetics and heredity......Page 144
5 - Cancer-associated genes......Page 163
6 - Cancer in nonhuman organisms......Page 213
7 - Epidemiology......Page 239
8 - Lifestyle: Is there anything more important?......Page 266
9 - The stem cell basis of cancer treatment: concepts and clinical outcomes......Page 284
10 - Oncology: The difficult task of eradicating caricatures of normal tissue renewal in the human patient......Page 325
Appendix: Description of selected tumors......Page 373
Glossary......Page 399
References......Page 419
Index......Page 487
Plate section......Page 494