SPECIAL ISSUE / 2007

Features

To Catch a CancerPatients benefit from ease and success of modern breast cancer screening.

BY PAUL ENGSTROM

A New EraAs data emerge from a surge of new therapies, doctors combine the best of the best.

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

The Comforts of HelpWomen need [and are now getting] more than medical care to heal from breast cancer.

BY KATHY LATOUR

Eluding CancerBreast cancer prevention meets success with new agents and a new thinking.

BY ERIK NESS

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Editor's Page

Message from the EditorAdvances in Breast Cancer: A Special Issue

BY MELISSA WEBER

Readers' Forum

The Law of DistractionCartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto, author of Cancer Vixen, shares her journey through breast cancer through her drawings.

BY MARISA A. MARCHETTO

Web Exclusives

What Stage Is Your Breast Cancer?A guide to how breast cancers are staged, from in situ (stage 0) to metastatic (stage IV).

Optimism for Inflammatory Breast CancerA once frightening diagnosis, inflammatory breast cancer now has treatment options.

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

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The Law of Distraction

BY MARISA A. MARCHETTO

Marisa Acocella Marchetto lives in New York City and is a cartoonist for The New Yorker and Glamour. Her graphic memoir Cancer Vixen: A True Story was published by Knopf in 2006.

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