I have been privileged to witness and participate in the great growth of knowledge on chemical carcinogenesis and mutagenesis since 1939 when I entered graduate school in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin Madison. I immediately started to work with the carcinogenic aminoazo dyes un der the direction of Professor CARL BAUMANN. In 1942 I joined a fellow graduate student, ELIZABETH CA VERT, in marriage and we soon commenced a joyous part nership in research on chemical carcinogenesis at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research in the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. This collaboration lasted 45 years. I am very grateful that this volume is dedi cated to the memory of Elizabeth. The important and varied topics that are reviewed here attest to the continued growth of the fields of chemical car cinogenesis and mutagenesis, including their recent and fruitful union with viral oncology. I feel very optimistic about the application of knowledge in these fields to the eventual solution of numerous problems, including the detection and estimation of the risks to humans of environmental chemical carcinogens and re lated factors.

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This is the second of two handbook volumes which present a wide-ranging review of current knowledge in the areas of chemical carcinogenesis and mutagenesis. Whereas the first volume covers the theories of carcinogenesis, exposure to chemical carcinogens, in vivo and in vitro carcinogenesis, and reactions of carcinogens with DNA, this second volume concentrates on the relationships between mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, modifiers of chemical carcinogenesis, and oncogenes in tumour development. Both volumes are of broad interest to pharmacologists and toxicologists and appeal especially to graduate and post-graduate research workers. This may be the first work ever to cover the complete range of carcinogenesis, from epidemiology to the effects of oncogenes on cellular differentiation. Thus it provides specialists in particular areas of cancer research with up-to-date overviews of adjacent areas.

Inhalt
I. Relationships Between Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis.- 1 Use of Mutations in Bacteria as Indicators of Carcinogenic Potential.- 2 Mammalian Cell Mutations.- 3 Mechanisms of Repair in Mammalian Cells.- 4 Cancer-Prone Human Disorders with Defects in DNA Repair.- 5 DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis by Alkylating Agents.- II. Modifiers of Chemical Carcinogenesis.- 6 Tumour Promotion: Biology and Molecular Mechanisms.- 7 Inhibition of Chemical Carcinogenesis.- 8 Genetic Susceptibility to Chemical Carcinogens.- 9 Interactive Effects Between Viruses and Chemical Carcinogens.- III. Oncogenes in Tumour Development.- 10 Human Oncogenes.- 11 Recessive Oncogenes and Anti-Oncogenes.- 12 The Role of Oncogene Activation in Chemical Carcinogenesis.- 13 Growth Factors and Their Receptors.- 14 Signal Transduction in Proliferating Normal and Transformed Cells.- 15 Effect of Oncogenes on Cell Differentiation.