The biological basis of cancer / Robert G. McKinnell [and others].

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

xvii, 475 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm

2nd ed.

Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-468) and index.

The 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.