This is a comprehensive and technically detailed book which will, I think, be of value to laboratory workers and perhaps some interested clinicians who wish to have authoritative accounts of research into the application of oncological biology to the early detection and, to a lesser extent, the prevention of lung cancer.

In 1996 the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) sponsored two workshops on lung cancer prevention, the first focusing on clinical studies and the second—the subject of this book—focusing on basic laboratory work which was held in Nancy in France. This volume consists of 30 separate papers delivered at the workshop and edited for publication.

Although the title of the book emphasises prevention, to my mind the bulk of it essentially looks at laboratory investigations of …