By Bruce S. Schoenberg (auth.), Michael D. Walker M.D. (eds.)

Where do you start to seem for a up to date, authoritative article at the analysis of administration of a specific malignancy? The few normal oncology textbooks are regularly old-fashioned. unmarried papers in really expert journals are informative yet seldom complete; those are extra frequently initial stories on a truly constrained variety of sufferers. yes basic journals usually put up reliable in­ intensity experiences of melanoma themes, and released symposium lectures are usually the easiest overviews on hand. regrettably, those experiences and vitamins seem sporadically, and the reader can by no means make sure while a subject of precise curiosity may be coated. melanoma therapy and examine is a sequence of authoritative volumes which target to fulfill this desire. it's an try and identify a serious mass of oncology literature protecting almost all oncology themes, revised usually to maintain the assurance modern, simply to be had on a unmarried library shelf or by way of a unmarried according to­ sonal subscription. we have now approached the matter within the following model. First, via dividing the oncology literature into particular subdivisions equivalent to lung melanoma, genitourinary melanoma, pediatric oncology, and so forth. moment, through asking eminent gurus in each one of those parts to edit a quantity at the particular subject on an an­ nual or biannual foundation. every one subject and tumor sort is roofed in a quantity seem­ ing often and predictably, discussing present prognosis, staging, markers, all different types of remedy modalities, simple biology, and more.