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Genes and cancer. UCLA symposia on molecular and cellular biology, New Series, Volume 17. J. Michael Bishop, Janet D. Rowley, and Mel Greaves, editors. Alan R. Liss, Inc.: New York, 1984, $88.00, 710pp

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
59 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0148-7299

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✦ Synopsis

For 7 days in March 1984, a symposium entitled "Genes and Cancer" was held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The program included numerous international experts on various aspects of the genetics of cancer. This text contains 48 articles written by many of the participants at that meeting. In the words of the editors, "This volume offers a fair sampling of what transpired."

The primary stimulus for this symposium was the discovery of oncogenes, certain specific chromosome abnormalities, and the feeling that researchers were on the edge of establishing the molecular basis of malignancy. The book contains short articles on population genetics in human cancer, DNA damage and repair, genetic evolution of tumor cells undergoing malignant progression, identification and mode of action of oncogenes and viruses, chromosome abnormalities, and the differentiation of cells undergoing tumorigenesis.

The text is organized into a logical series of papers and is relatively easy to understand. This book should be a useful reference for anyone interested in the molecular basis of malignant processes as understood by leading researchers as of 1984. Although there have been many discoveries since this symposium was held, the general trends in basic cancer research today are similar. Thus, the book contains considerable information that is of value even today.

I was not among the fortunate individuals who were able to attend the symposium and so am grateful for having the opportunity to read this text. Apparently, the meeting was considered such a success by the organizers that a similar meeting was held in 1986, also in Steamboat Springs.

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