Book reviewsing results, but it may be possible in the future to link them with histochemical investigations.The third section is the most useful to the haematologist for it provides a resume of current therapeutic trends.Inevitably this must date rapidly, but this is a standard risk for all major textbooks and Dr. Hayhoe's approach, by discussing the underlying motivation, provides a sound stem upon which newer therapy may be grafted.The fourth section refers to clinical aspects.Reading through these chapters reinforces the view that any one classification can never adequately embrace this group of pathological states, but Dr. Hayhoe makes a sporting attempt in his final figure where every condition is brought into one major scheme.This book can very thoroughly be recommended for all haematologists.Of particular value is the very adequate bibliography.Dr. Hayhoe ends his book with a brief attempt at definition.'. . . the leukaemias are proliferative diseases falling within the general category of neoplasia in its widest sense, but very possibly due to an externally determined imbalance between the forces controlling leucopoiesis, although in some cases the proliferation may become autonomous'.It will be interesting to see how this definition stands when, in due course, this volume piogresses to a second edition.It might be helpful on such an occasion for the author to summarize each chapter, giving his own views on the material analysed and presented.This would provide a more personal touch to this first-class review of a very difficult subject.
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