M.D. Anderson 2006 Surgical Oncology Handbook (Paperback, 4th. edition) available at Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/M-D-Anderson-S.../dp/078175643X

A kind reader of this group pointed out to me that the book was available at
the above link.

720 pages. $44.12 US.

Please note there is a link on this page where you can buy used copies
(remainders ?) for as low as 26.92 US $.

I have read the section of this book on Head and Neck Cancer, and I find it
absolutely excellent(of course, in places, technically far beyond my medical
knowledge).

I wish I had this book before I started treatment !

fyi : I tried to find this book listed on M.D. Anderson's site :

fyi : I tried to find this book listed on M.D. Anderson's site :

http://www.mdanderson.org/patients_p...od=displayFull

But their publications page linked to above does not show it. And using
their internal Google-based search engine came up with everything but.

Note that M.D. Anderson is a part of the University of Texas : according to
their website : "M. D. Anderson now ranks first in the number of grants
awarded, and total amount of grants given by the National Cancer Institute."
So a good bit of federal tax money for cancer research is being spent there,
to good effect, probably.

So if you have any ideas that your taxpayer money funded this institution,
and that having to pay more than US $40 for a publication from them from a
3rd. party publisher is not quite right : may I refer you to the page on the
M.D. Anderson web-site :

http://www.mdanderson.org/misc/displ...od=displayFull

Which seems to imply to me that any citizen of Texas has the right to any
document produced by M. D. Anderson, and sets forth very specific mechanisms
by which a citizen of Texas can assert those rights :

"Texas Government Code, Chapter 552, gives you the right to access
government records, and an officer for public information and the officer's
agent may not ask why you want them."

regards, Uncle Sally

>
> Which seems to imply to me that any citizen of Texas has the right to any
> document produced by M. D. Anderson, and sets forth very specific
> mechanisms
> by which a citizen of Texas can assert those rights :
>
> "Texas Government Code, Chapter 552, gives you the right to access
> government records, and an officer for public information and the
> officer's
> agent may not ask why you want them."
>
> regards, Uncle Sally
>

Very interesting point, at the lectures I have attended the NLM ( National
Library of Medicine) the rep had stated that after some many years ( I
can't find it on their website) full text is provided. That is where is
should be if grant monies where used, and I don't know the time limit. That
is why there are some full text articles on pubmed.

Alex