Oncology is the branch of medicine that studies tumors (cancer) and seeks to understand their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
There are five major areas of oncology: etiology, prevention, biology, diagnosis, and treatment. As a clinical discipline, it draws upon a wide variety of medical specialties; as a research discipline, oncology also involves specialists in many areas of biology and in a variety of other scientific areas.
Oncology has led to major progress in the understanding not only of cancer but also of normal biology.
Lecture Notes: Oncology (by Bower)
Manual of Clinical Oncology (by Casciato)
The Washington Manual of Oncology (by Govindan)
The Biology of Cancer (by Weinberg)
Handbook of Evidence-based Radiation Oncology (by Hansen)
Clinical Radiation Oncology (by Gunderson)
Clinical Oncology (by Abeloff)
