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by Charles G Moertel, Richard J Reitemeier, 218 pp, 48 illus, $15, New York, Paul R Hoeber Inc, 1969.

Howard M. Spiro, MD, Reviewer
Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Conn

JAMA. 1970;211(12):2020.

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The clinician who treats gastrointestinal neoplasms has had a long frustrating flirtation with the chemotherapy doxy. This book memorializes the encounters and encompasses the treatment regimens and the clinical investigations of cancer chemotherapy at the Mayo Clinic in more than 1,300 patients.

In the first part the clinical management of advanced gastrointestinal cancer is discussed in 69 pages; the second somewhat longer part reviews the experience of the Mayo Clinic in the chemotherapy of advanced gastrointestinal cancer. The first section is short but good, and the best chapters are written by Dr. Moertel himself, that on symptomatic and supportive management, for example, being particularly wholesome. Other aspects of cancer care are much less thoroughly covered. The place of chemotherapy is well summarized:

It is doubtful also that today's chemotherapeutic approaches to gastrointestinal carcinoma have any place in the routine practice of clinical medicine.... [but]... the patient may be . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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