Oxford Textbook of Oncology

• Section 1: Hallmarks of Cancer 1: Douglas Hanahan and Robert A. Weinberg: The hallmarks of cancer 2: Shujuan Liu and Ahmed Ashour Ahmed: Growth factors and uncontrolled proliferation 3: Stefan Knapp: Cell signalling pathways 4: Simon Carr and Nicholas La Thangue: Cell cycle control 5: Amanda S. Coutts, Sandra Maniam, and Nicholas La Thangue: Cancer cell death 6: Yull E. Arriaga and Arthur E. Frankel: Angiogenesis 7: Andrew P. Mazar, Andrey Ugolkov, Jack Henkin, Richard Ahn, and Thomas V. O'Halloran: Invasion and metastases 8: Sir Walter Bodmer and Jenny Wilding: Genetic instability 9: E. Dikomey, K. Borgmann, M. Kriegs, W. Mansour, C. Petersen, and T. Rieckmann: DNA repair after oncological therapy 10: Andreas Trumpp: Biology of cancer stem cells 11: Richard D Kennedy, Manuel Salto-Tellez, D. Paul Harkin, and Patrick G Johnston: Biomarker identification and clinical validation 12: Campbell SD Roxburgh and Donald C McMillan: Cancer, immunity, and inflammation 13: Cameron Snell, Kevin C Gatter, Adrian L Harris, Francesco Pezzella: Cancer and metabolism Section 2: Etiology and Epidemiology of Cancer 14: Jonathan Samet: Smoking and cancer 15: Chris Boshoff: Viruses 16: Paula A. Oliveira: Chemical carcinogens 17: Klaus Trott: Radiation 18: Ellen Kampman and Franzel van Duijnhoven: Body fatness, physical activity, diet, and other lifestyle factors Section 3: Principles of Oncology 19: PG Boelens, CBM van den Broek, and CJH van de Velde: Practice points for surgical oncology 20: Annekatrin Singer, Stephanie E. Combs, Jürgen Debus, and Michael Baumann: Practice points for radiation oncology 21: David Kerr, Daniel Haller, and Jaap Verweij: Principles of chemotherapy 22: David N Church, Rachel S Midgley, and David J Kerr: Delivery of multidisciplinary cancer care 23: Michael Ong and Udai Banerji: Principles of clinical pharmacology: Introduction to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics 24: Dan Sargeant and Qian Shi: Design and analysis of clinical trials 25: Eric A. Singer: Medical ethics in oncology 26: Jeffrey Peppercorn: Health economic assessment of cancer therapy Section 4: Population Health 27: Masoud Samiei: Cancer control: The role of national plans 28: Sarah Goltz and Julian Lob-Levyt: Cancer prevention: Vaccination 29: Hans-Joerg Senn, Nadir Arber, and Dirk Schrijvers: Cancer prevention: Chemoprevention 30: Andrew Evans, Simon Herrington, and Robert Steele: Population cancer screening 31: Henry T. Lynch, Carrie L. Snyder, and Jane F. Lynch (deceased): Familial cancer syndromes and genetic counselling Section 5: Support for the cancer patient 32: David Hui and Eduardo Bruera: Supportive palliative care 33: Neil Aaronson and Peter Fayers: Quality of life 34: Rachel L. Yung and Ann H. Partridge: Cancer survivorship and rehabilitation Section 6: Disease 35: Christine Chung, Andreas Dietz, Vincent Gregoire, Marco Guzzo, Marc Hamoir, René Leemans, Jean-Louis Lefebvre, Lisa Licitra, Adel El-Naggar, Brian O?Sullivan, Bing Tan, Vincent Vandecaveye, Vincent Vander Poorten, Jan Vermorken, and Michelle Williams: Cancer of the head and neck 36: Eric Van Cutsem, Christophe M. Deroose, Piet Dirix, Karin Haustermans, Tony Lerut, Philippe Nafteux, Hans Prenen, and Xavier Sagaert: Oesophageal cancer 37: Hideaki Bando, Takahiro Kinoshita, Yasutoshi Kuboki, Atsushi Ohtsu, and Kohei Shitara: Gastric cancer 38: Regina Beets-Tan, Bengt Glimelius, and Lars Påhlman: Rectal cancer 39: John Zalcberg, Stephen Fox, Alexander Heriot, Jon Knowles, Sam Ngan, Michael Michael, Kathryn Field, and Iris Nagtegaal: Colon cancer 40: J. Weitz, M.W. Büchler, Paul D Sykes, John P Neoptolemos, Eithne Costello, Christopher M Halloran, Frank Bergmann, Peter Schirmacher, Ulrich Bork, Stefan Fritz, Jens Werner, Thomas Brunner, Elizabeth Smyth, David Cunningham, Brian R. Untch, and Peter J. Allen: Pancreatic cancer 41: Graeme J Poston, Nicholas Stern, Jonathan Evans, Priya Healey, Daniel Palmer, and Mohandas K. Mallath: Hepatobiliary cancer 42: H. Richard Alexander, Jr., Dario Baratti, Terence C. Chua, Marcello Deraco, Raffit Hassan, Marzia Pennati, Federica Perrone, Paul H. Sugarbaker, Anish Thomas, Keli Turner, Tristan D. Yan and Nadia Zaffaroni: Peritoneal mesothelioma 43: Martine Piccart, Toral Gathani, Dimitrios Zardavas, Hatem A. Azim Jr., Christos Sotiriou, Giuseppe Viale, Emiel J T Rutgers, Mechthild Krause, Monica Arnedos, Suzette Delaloge, Fabrice Andre, and Felipe Ades: Cancer of the breast 44: Richard Pötter, Shujuan Liu, Bolin Liu, Sebastien Gouy, Sigurd Lax, Eric Leblanc, Philippe Morice, Fabrice Narducci, Alexander Reinthaller, Maximilian P Schmid, Catherine Uzan, and Pauline Wimberger: Gynaecological cancers 45: John Fitzpatrick, Asif Muneer , Jean de la Rosette, and Thomas Powles: Genitourinary cancer 46: Rafal Dziadziuszko, Michael Baumann, Tetsuya Mitsudomi, Keith M. Kerr, Solange Peters, and Stefan Zimmermann: Lung cancer 47: Rebecca Bütof, Axel Denz, Gustavo Baretton, Jan Stöhlmacher-Williams, and Michael Baumann: Neoplasms of the thymus 48: Andrea S. Wolf, Assunta De Rienzo, Raphael Bueno, Lucian R. Chirieac, Joseph Corson, Elizabeth H. Baldini, David Jackman, Ritu Gill, Walter Weder, Isabelle Opitz, Ann S. Adams, and David J. Sugarbaker: Pleural mesothelioma 49: John F Thompson, Richard A Scolyer, and Richard F Kefford: Skin cancer: melanoma 50: Diona L. Damian, Richard A. Scolyer, Graham Stevens, Alexander Menzies, and John F. Thompson: Skin cancer: non-melonoma 51: Adele K. Fielding, Charles G. Mullighan, Dieter Hoelzer, Eytan M. Stein, Ghada Zakout, Martin S. Tallman, Ross Levine, Yishai Ofran, Jacob M. Rowe, and Ross L. Levine: Acute leukemia 52: Hemant Malhotra, Lalit Kumar, Pankaj Malhotra, Devendra Hiwase, and Ravi Bhatia: Chronic leukemias 53: Charlotte Pawlyn, Faith Davies, and Gareth Morgan: Myeloma 54: Frank Kroschinsky, Friedrich Stölzel, Stefano A. Pileri, Bjoern Chapuy, Rainer Ordemann, Christian Gisselbrecht, Tim Illidge, David C. Hodgson, Mary K. Gospodarowicz, Christina Schütze, and Gerald Wulf: Lymphomas 55: Alessandro Gronchi, Angelo P. Dei Tos, and Paolo G. Casali: Sarcomas of the soft tissue 56: Puneet Plaha, Allyson Parry, Pieter Pretorius, Michael Brada, Olaf Ansorge, and Claire Blessing: Cancer of the central nervous system 57: Daniel G. Ezra, Geoffrey E. Rose, Jacob Pe'er, Sarah Coupland, S. Seregard, G.P.M. Luyten, and Annette C. Moll: Cancer of the eye and orbit 58: David Kerr, Andrew Weaver, Anthony P. Weetman, Oliver Gimm, Ashley Grossman, Petra Sulentic, Bertram Wiedenmann, Ulrich-Frank Pape, John Wass, Angela Rogers, and W de Herder: Endocrine cancers 59: Nicholas Pavlidis and George Pentheroudakis: Cancer of unknown primary site Index

I would recommend anyone considering buying an oncology textbook, and particularly those who work in oncology support services, to consider this textbook as it is well set out, easy to read, easy to comprehend, and covers all of the important aspects of modern day oncology.