© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 9, 754,
May 3, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
BOOK REVIEW |
Aplastic Anemia: Pathophysiology and Treatment
H. Schrezenmeier, A. Bacigalupo, eds. Cambridge (U.K.): Cambridge University Press, 2000. 391 pp., illus., $110. ISBN 0-521-64101-2
Correspondence to: Robert A. Brodsky, M.D., Department of Oncology, Division of Immunology and Hematopoiesis, The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Cancer Research Bldg., Rm. 242, 1650 Orleans St., Baltimore, MD 21231 (e-mail: rbrodsky@jhmi.edu).
Aplastic anemia is a rare hematopoietic disease with an incidence of two to six new cases per million people in the United States. For decades, the disease has fascinated clinicians and researchers in diverse fields, including hematologists, stem cell biologists, immunologists, and hematopoietic stem cell transplanters. This intense study of aplastic