Includes bibliographical references and index.

The modern management of cancer: an introductory note -- Epidemiolog y, cure, treatment trials and screening -- Biology of cancer -- Staging of tumours -- Radiotherapy -- Systemic treatment for cancer -- Support ive care and symptom relief -- Medical problems and radiotherapy emerge ncies -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Cancer of the head and neck -- Bra in and spinal cord -- Tumours of the lung and mediastinum -- Breast can cer -- Cancer of the oesophagus and stomach -- Cancer of the liver, bil iary tract and pancreas -- Tumours of the small and large bowel -- Gyna ecological cancer -- Genitourinary cancer -- Testicular cancer -- Thyro id and adrenal cancer -- Cancer from an unknown primary site -- Skin ca ncer -- Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas -- Paediatric malignancies -- Hod gkin’s disease -- Non-hodgkin’s lymphomas -- Myeloma and other para proteinaemias -- Leukaemia.