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Manfred Schwab
(Ed.)
Encyclopedic Reference of
Cancer With 261 Figures and 64 Tables
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Manfred Schwab Professor for Genetics, Director, Division Cytogenetics - H-0400 German Cancer Research Center Im Neuenheimer Feld 280 69120 Heidelberg Germany
ISBN 3-540-66527-7 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schwab, M. (Manfred), 1945Encyclopedic reference of cancer / Manfred Schwab. p. cm. ISBN 3540665277 1. Cancer±Encyclopedias. I. Title. RC254.5 .S393 2001 616.99'4'003±dc21
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Preface Cancer, although a dreadful disease, is at the same time a fascinating biological phenotype. Around 1980, cancer was first attributed to malfunctioning genes and, subsequently, cancer research has become a major area of scientific research supporting the foundations of modern biology to a great extent. To unravel the human genome sequence was one of those extraordinary tasks, which has largely been fuelled by cancer research, and many of the fascinating insights into the genetic circuits that regulate developmental processes have also emerged from research on cancer. Diverse biological disciplines such as cytogenetics, virology, cell biology, classical and molecular genetics, epidemiology, biochemistry, together with the clinical sciences, have closed ranks in their search of how cancer develops and to find remedies to stop the abnormal growth that is characteristic of cancerous cells. In the attempt t
