Compiling significant advances from more than a decade of research, this text presents breakthroughs in the prevention, treatment, and control of cancer-exploring the origin, function, and behavior of cancerous cells and promoting the development of effective therapeutics for common malignancies of the breast, lung, prostate, and gastrointestinal tract, as well as other major systems of the body.Highlights an author-maintained web-site offering an extended series of slide illustrations for clear and concise oncology lectures!Completely revised and expanded throughout, the Fourth Edition of Fundamentals of Oncology contains new chapters detailing·the utilization of genetic data for possible elimination of disease·emerging families of chemotherapeutic drugs, such as taxols and topoisomerase inhibitors·the characteristics of promoting agents and environmental carcinogens·host-tumor relationships·endocrine and stromal responsesand provides·current strategies to halt disease progression·additional tables, drawings, and micrographs·an extended list of glossary termsFundamentals of Oncology, Fourth Edition is a timely and definitive text for upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical students taking courses in oncology, pathology, pathophysiology, cell biology, pharmacology, toxicology, and epidemiology.Here are just some of the colleges and universities that have benefited from previous editions of the Fundamentals of Oncology:University of AlabamaUniversity of AlaskaUniversity of ArizonaBoston UniversityUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of Connecticut, StorrsC.W. PostDrew UniversityDukeUniversityEastern Michigan UniversityFlorida Atlantic UniversityGloucester County CollegeUniversity of Massachusetts at WorcesterMichigan State UniversityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillNortheastern UniversityNorthern Kentucky UniversityUniversity of PittsburghCollege of Saint RoseUniversity of Saskatchewan, SaskatoonSeattle UniversityUniversity of South Carolina, ColumbiaUniversity of South Florida, TampaUniversity of Tennessee at KnoxvilleUniversity of Tennessee at Oak RidgeTulane UniversityUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake CityUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of Wisconsin-WhitewaterVirginia Commonwealth UniversityWilliams College