• Scarpignato C
• editor. Somatostatin Analogs in Cancer Management

It may be common practice to publish book versions of journal supplements but this is the first such example to reach the desk of this reviewer (reprint of Chemotherapy 2001:47:supplement 2). In this age of instant electronic information retrieval the idea of producing such a hard copy version seems rather retrogressive, but for frequent referral it is still easier and quicker to reach for a book from the shelf than to suffer the vagaries of Internet access. But is this a book that needs to be at one’s fingertips?

The book consists of a preface and …