Traditional therapeutic approaches such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy have
burdened cancer patients with onerous physical and psychological challenges …

This year, 2011, marks the forty-year anniversary of the statistical analysis of retinoblastoma
that provided the first evidence that tumorigenesis can be initiated by as few as two …

Many refer to the textbook Radiobiology for the Radiologist as the “bible” of radiation biology
for educating residents, researchers, and clinicians. Dr. Eric Hall has compiled, written, and …

DNA from 61 unrelated patients with adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) was examined for
mutations in three genes@ Pi, SRP79, and DP2. 5) located within a 166 kb region deleted in …

This WHO classification covers tumors of soft tissue and bone including inherited tumor
syndromes. Each entity is extensively discussed with information on clinicopathological …

Background Retinoblastoma is the childhood retinal cancer that defined tumour-suppressor
genes. Previous work shows that mutation of both alleles of the RB1 retinoblastoma …

The first three editions of this acclaimed book presented a much-needed conceptual
synthesis of this rapidly moving field. Now, Cancer Cytogenetics, Fourth Edition, offers a …

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN-1) is a predisposition to hyperplasia of the
parathyroid glands, and to hyperplasia or tumours of the anterior pituitary and the endocrine …

Pheochromocytoma is a rare but important tumor of chromaffin cells that is frequently
considered in the evaluation of hypertension, arrhythmias, or panic disorder and in the …

In one of the first major texts in the emerging field of computational molecular biology, Pavel
Pevzner covers a broad range of algorithmic and combinatorial topics and shows how they …