Chemotherapy for malignant disease has brought about many rapid and often spectacular improvements in the survival rate of some groups of patients. Yet enthusiasm for these successes has, in part, been offset by the problems in evaluating responses to treatment and by the disappointment of failing to check the progress of still so many other tumours. These reactions will be no surprise to the medical historian but perhaps the expectations from scientific progress nowadays sometimes demand more than can reasonably be expected. Another expectation is that any review of chemotherapy is com pletely up to date, even prophetic. Such is the expansion of the subject that new drugs and trial results are continually being reported but it is this very mass of information that creates its own problems and makes many clinicians despair of finding a balanced judgement on all of this information. This was the challenge accepted by Professor Spiers. He then gathered together a group of colleagues who are amongst the acknowledged leaders in the field of chemotherapy for urological tumours, all of whom have made important contributions to this subject. However, each chapter is not merely a record of the author's experience but encompasses an assessment of past and present practice as well as perspectives in diagnosis and management. Almost all chapters include reference to published work up to and including 1981."

Heb dowt vyth yth o Caradar (A. S. D. Smith, 1883- 1950) an gwella scrifor a Gernowek a dhedhyow avarr an dasserghyans. Y fydh kefys i'n lyver-ma try rew a whedhlow dhyworth y bluven ev hag a veu gwelys rag an kensa prys lies bledhen alebma. An kensa bagas a whedhlow yw kemerys in mes a'y guntellyans "Nebes Whedhlow Ber" (1948); yma an secund rew a whedhlow kemerys dhyworth y lyver "Whethlow an Seyth Den Fur a Rom" (1948), ha'n tressa bagas a whedhlow a veu gwelys in dadn an titel 'Forth an Broder Odryk' in "Kemysk Kernewek: A Cornish Miscellany" (1964). Yma kefys i'n lyver-ma kefrys gerva usy moy es 1,400 ger ha hanow styrys inhy. - - Without any doubt Caradar (A. S. D. Smith, 1883- 1950) was the best writer of Cornish of the early revival. Three groups of stories from his pen will be found in this book that were all published many years ago. The first group come from his collection "Nebes Whethlow Ber" (1948); the second group of stories are to be found in his "Whethlow an Seyth Den Fur a Rom" (1948), and the third series appeared with the title 'Forth an Broder Odryk' in "Kemysk Kernewek: A Cornish Miscellany" (1964). The book also contains a vocabulary in which more than 1,400 words and names are glossed.