The increasing role of molecular pathology in the daily practice of medicine, including the increasingly routine
use of targeted molecular therapy in personalized patient care, has created a need for textbooks that bridge the
gap between medical practice and basic molecular science. Each book in the Molecular Pathology Library
Series by Springer Science+Business Media provides a review of current molecular pathology for a specifi c
organ system. The purpose of Basic Concepts of Molecular Pathology is to provide a succinct background of
molecular pathology terminology and concepts to serve as a foundation and reference for understanding the
medically oriented organ-specifi c information in the other books in the series. As such, Basic Concepts of
Molecular Pathology serves as a companion to books in the Molecular Pathology Library Series and also
stands alone as a quick review of molecular pathology principles.