R F Mould (ed) 1984 Bristol: Adam Hilger xiv + 246 pp price £24 (IOP members' price £19.20) ISBN 0 85274 780 2
These are the proceedings of a workshop on computer acquisition and analysis of data on cancer patients (WHO, Geneva, 26–28 March 1984). They deal with the impact of microcomputers (two papers), with software in use (ten), with data communications (five), with what data should be collected (nine), with the statistical evaluation of cancer treatment (five), with epidemiology (five), with clinical trials' protocols (two) and with legal and ethical aspects (four).