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Contributors from the department of surgery at the University of Texas-Galveston (with one, perhaps a Lone Star alumnus, from the University of California-Oakland) explore the mechanisms regulating the development, progression, and subsequent metastasis of tumors in the pancreas, stomach, and colorectum as a foundation to hasten the development of novel agents to combat the cancer when its spread has made the otherwise easy surgical approach infeasible. They describe growth factors, hormones, receptors, signaling pathways, cell cycle and apoptosis regulation, oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, and angiogenesis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)