INTRODUCTION
Making Headway against Cancer
FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDINGS
How Cancer Arises
How Cancer Spreads
CAUSES AND PREVENTION
What Causes Cancer?
Strategies for Minimizing Cancer Risk
Chemoprevention of Cancer
Current Controversy:
Is Hormone Replacement Therapy a Risk?
TOWARD EARLIER DETECTION
Advances in Cancer Detection
Advances in Tumor Imaging
Current Controversies:
Should Women in Their 40s Have Mammograms?
Does Screening for Prostate Cancer Make Sense?
IMPROVING CONVENTIONAL THERAPY
Advancing Current Treatments for Cancer
When Are Bone Marrow Transplants Considered?
Fact Sheet:
Twelve Major Cancers
THERAPIES OF THE FUTURE
Immunotherapy for Cancer
New Molecular Targets for Cancer Therapy
Fighting Cancer by Attacking Its Blood Supply
LIVING WITH CANCER
Cancer's Psychological Challenges
Alternative Cancer Treatments
Controlling the Pain of Cancer
Current Controversy:
What Are Obstacles to Ideal Care?
REGULAR SECTIONS
NEWS AND ANALYSIS
WORKING KNOWLEDGE
How to freeze-dry anything
THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST
Small ponds hold plenty of wildlife for the backyard naturalist
REVIEWS
The animal origins of human morality
Specious thinking on pollution's dangers
Briefly noted
COMMENTARIES
Wonders: The Scientific Value of Prediction is Overrated
Connections: From Bottled Veggies to a Pointillist Picnic
FROM THE EDITORS
50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
Letters to the Editors