Encyclopedic Reference Of Cancer

Encyclopedic Reference of Cancer 3 Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Hong Kong London Milan Paris Tokyo Manfred Schwab (Ed.) Encyclopedic Reference of Cancer With 261 Figures and 64 Tables 13 Manfred Schwab Professor for Genetics, Director, Division Cytogenetics - H-0400 German Cancer Research Center Im Neuenheimer Feld 280 69120 Heidelberg Germany ISBN 3-540-66527-7 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schwab, M. (Manfred), 1945Encyclopedic reference of cancer / Manfred Schwab. p. cm. ISBN 3540665277 1. Cancer±Encyclopedias. I. Title. RC254.5 .S393 2001 616.99'4'003±dc21 2001049122 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is only permitted under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001 Printed in Italy The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and r