Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer 3rd ed (Eds) Vincent T. DeVita Jr., Theodore S. Lawrence, Steven A. Rosenberg with 71 contributing authors

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by  Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer (Eds) ,Vincent T. DeVita Jr., Theodore S. Lawrence, Steven A. Rosenberg with 71 contributing authors

Editors
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., MD
Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine
Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer
Hospital at Yale-New Haven
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Public Health
New Haven, Connecticut
Theodore S. Lawrence, MD,
PhD
Isadore Lampe Professor and Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Steven A. Rosenberg, MD,
PhD
Chief, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health
Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of
the Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland
Professor of Surgery
George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia
With 71 Contributing Authors

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Names: DeVita, Vincent T., Jr., 1935‐ , editor. | Lawrence, Theodore S., editor. | Rosenberg, Steven
A., editor.
Title: Cancer : principles & practice of oncology. Primer of the molecular biology of cancer / editors,
Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., Theodore S. Lawrence, Steven A. Rosenberg ; with 71 contributing
authors.
Other titles: Primer of the molecular biology of cancer | Devita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s cancer.
11th edition.
Description: Third edition. | [Philadelphia] : Wolters Kluwer, [2021] | Abridgement of: Devita,
Hellman, and Rosenberg’s cancer. 11th edition. [2019]. | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019055156 | ISBN 9781975149116 | ISBN 9781975149130 (epub)
Subjects: MESH: Neoplasms—etiology | Neoplasms—genetics | Neoplasms—physiopathology |
Molecular Biology—methods
Classification: LCC RC263 | NLM QZ 202 | DDC 616.99/4—dc23 LC record available at
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C O N T R I B U T O R S
Gregory P. Adams, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Eleven Biotherapeutics
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Anupriya Agarwal, PhD
Hematology and Medical Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Cristina R. Antonescu, MD
Director, Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology
Department of Pathology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Brittany A. Avin, PhD Candidate
Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology Program
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Alberto Bardelli, PhD
Full Professor
Director, Molecular Oncology
Department of Oncology
University of Torino
Candiolo Cancer Institute
Candiolo, Italy
Alice Hawley Berger, PhD
Assistant Member
Human Biology and Public Health Sciences Divisions
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
Tara Berman, MD, MS
Medical Oncologist
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Bryan L. Betz, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Michigan
Technical Director
Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan
James S. Blachly, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Hematology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G.
James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute
Columbus, Ohio
Danielle C. Bonadies, MS, CGC
Director
My Gene Counsel
Branford, Connecticut