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Each issue in the Cancer Surveys series provides a comprehensive survey of the present state and future developments in a well-defined area in oncology in which there is current scientific or clinical interest. The present volume contains chapters by researchers with a special interest in individual types of cancers. In total, they provide incontrovertible evidence that temporal changes in incidence are the rule rather than the exception and that there is overwhelming evidence that some cancers are becoming more common and others less so. They also show that the changes are proceeding at different rates at different ages and in different countries and sometimes even in different directions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.