Cancer in Children is the first volume in this new series, sponsored by the DICC, on the treatment of cancer. The editors and authors feel strongly that more standardization is needed on a worldwide basis in cancer therapy. This, of course, is only possible if experts from all countries subscribe to a joint policy of making their treatment designs available to practising oncologists all over the world. Current Treatment of Cancer will discuss all the equipment and methods now in use in cancer therapy. It will cover all types of cancer, thus providing the reader with comprehensive information on cancer manage ment. The appearance of a book on paediatric oncology as the first in the series is intentional: in recent decades there has been a tremendous improvement in the treatment of cancer in children, and there is hope for even further success in this fight. We are convinced that this book and the series it is introducing will help us to make a concerted response to the challenge of cancer.

General Chapters

1. Aetiology and Epidemiology
2. Oncogenes and Chromosomal Aberrations
3. Pharmacology of Cytostatic Drugs
4. Chemotherapy
5. Radiation Therapy
6. Surgical Oncology in Children
7. Supportive Care
8. Infections in Children with Malignant Disease
9. Delayed Consequences of Therapy
10. Clinical Trials and Cooperative Studies
11. Paediatric Imaging
Special Chapters
12. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
13. Acute Non-Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
14. Chronic Leukaemia
15. Malignant B Cell Lymphoma of Childhood
16. Malignant T Cell and Other Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
17. Hodgkin's Disease
18. Current Concepts and Treatment of Histiocytosis X (Langerhans' Cell Histiocytosis)
19. Germ Cell Tumours
20. Tumours of the Central Nervous System
21. Tumours of the Eye and Orbit
22. Tumours of the Sympathetic Nervous System - Neuroblastoma, Ganglioneuroma and Phaeochromocytoma
23. Tumours of the Kidney
24. Liver Tumours
25. Tumours of the Endocrine Glands
26. Osteosarcoma and Chondrosarcoma
27. Ewing's Sarcoma
28. Rhabdomyosarcoma
29. Soft Tissue Sarcoma of Children
30. Skin Tumours
31. Carcinomas and Other Very Rare Tumours.