cancer:

See C. N. Coleman, Understanding Cancer (2d ed. 2006); A. H. Ko et al., Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy (rev 5th ed. 2008); S. Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies (2010); G. Johnson, The Cancer Chronicles (2013). See also publications of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Causes of Cancer
• Cancer Susceptibility
• Tumor Development
• Symptoms
• Prevention and Detection
• Treatment
• Bibliography

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