After introducing students to the basic biological principles of cancer, this new updated edition of an established textbook progresses to the human dimensions of the disease by considering actual cases of cancer. Other chapters discuss cancer pathology, metastasis, carcinogenesis, genetics, oncogenes and tumor suppressors, epidemiology, and the biological basis of cancer treatment. Also included are an appendix with descriptions of common forms of cancer and a glossary. First Edition Pb (1998): 0-521-59695-5The pathology of cancer / G. Barry Pierce and Ivan Damjanov -- Invasion and metastasis / Robert G. McKinnell -- Carcinogenesis / Alan O. Perantoni -- Genetics and heredity / Robert G. McKinnell -- Cancer-associated genes / Alan O. Perantoni -- Cancer in nonhuman organisms / Robert G. McKinnell -- Epidemiology / Robert G. McKinnell -- Lifestyle: is there anything more important? / Robert G. McKinnell -- The stem cell basis of cancer treatment: concepts and clinical outcomes / Ralph E. Parchment -- Oncology: the difficult task of eradicating caricatures of normal tissue renewal in the human patient / Ralph E. Parchment