Question for Medical Students or Physicians/Oncologists(?)

[Mike03]

Can you recommend your favorite text books on pathophysiology, especially the pathogenesis of cancer--how it happens, why it happens, risk factors, etc...? I'm particularly interested in cancers of the blood and bone marrow.

Will a very good textbook on pathophysiology discuss cancer, or is it necessary to buy textbooks specifically on cancer?

These are the books I've ordered:

Robbins and Cotran's Pathologic Basis of Disease. (And the pocket edition and study guide)

Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, by Tortora and Grabowski

I also ordered an Atlas of the Human Body, but I can't recall the artist.

It's important to me that the books be very current and up-to-date.

I know this is an odd question, but thanks in advance if anyone has an answer!

[Horse with no Name]

1. Try this

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Medicine/EpidemiologyBiostatistics/?view=usa&ci=9780195109696

Description
This superb text offers an overview of the epidemiology and primary prevention for most forms of human cancer. It summarizes concepts and methods of epidemiology, the biology of cancer, cancer genetics, and the emerging potential of biomarkers. Then it reviews specific cancer sites in a consistent way, providing clinical and pathological outlines, descriptive epidemiology, and a comprehensive account of traditional and molecular risk factors and their etiological importance

[Mike03]

2. Thank you, much appreciated.

Bookmarked for purchase.

[knitter4democracy]

3. Hubby recommends a hematology textbook.

Abeloff's is the big one, he says. He thinks that would explain what you're looking for better.