Evaluative Checklist of the Literature of Neoplastic Diseases

摘要

[HE field of cancer is so vast, so full of unexplained contradictions, so stubborn in resisting a decisive exploitable breakthrough, that the army of investigators deployed in it suffer more frustration than most men on medical frontiers." (1) This comment from Time's recent feature on cancer is not only true of the problem of laboratory research but can be applied to the problems of the literature as well.