Understanding Cancer

David Tarin is an internationally recognised physician, pathologist and scientist who has specialised in clinical diagnostic pathology and research on carcinogenesis, cancer metastasis and developmental biology. Over 6 decades he has held positions as Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego; Professor of Pathology at Oxford University School of Medicine, and Professor of Pathology at the Royal Postgraduate School of Medicine, London, as well as faculty positions at other Universities. He has also worked briefly at the Department of Pathology and the Department of Zoology in the University of Helsinki, Finland and at the Austrian Cancer Institute in Vienna, Austria. In addition to the current volume, he has published 2 other books on cancer, cited below* and multiple research and clinical articles and book chapters. He has acted as an advisor to the US National Cancer Institute and to the Cancer Research Campaign of the United Kingdom. He is also widely regarded as an expert medical witness in occupational and environmental carcinogenesis and in pathological diagnosis, based on his research and clinical experience and has testified in many jurisdictions internationally.

• Tissue Interactions in Carcinogenesis;  Academic Press London 1972
• Drug Delivery Systems Based upon the Tumour Microenvironment; Springer Japan 2020