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A practical guide to human cancer genetics, 3rd edn Shirley Hodgson, William Foulkes, Charis Eng and Eamonn Maher. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006. 410 pp. £45.
When I told a colleague that I had been sent the third edition of Human cancer genetics to review she said two things, 'Thank heavens there's a new edition' and 'Can I borrow it?'! This just about sums it up; for the busy clinician, nurse, specialist registrar-intraining and clinically orientated scientist this book is the essential reference source.
There are now four authors, moving the anglophile focus of Eamon Maher and Shirley Hodgson to be now firmly mid-Atlantic with the addition of prominent US cancer geneticists William Foukles and Caris Eng. Helpfully, any differences...