Special Issue / 2006

In Every Issue

Editor's Page

Message from the LAF's President and CEOFacing cancer's challenges on your own terms.

BY MITCH STOLLER

Letters from Our Readers

Letters to LancePatients, survivors, friends, and family send letters to Lance.

Special Report

First Approved HPV Vaccine Could Slash Number of Cervical CancersThis article discusses the FDA approval of Gardasil, the first cervical cancer vaccine.

BY EMMA JOHNSON

Food for Thought

Do Survivors Need a Dietitian?Nutrition after cancer becomes part of an emerging survivorship plan.

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

Speaking Out

A Survivor's Search for MeaningWhat another survivor taught me about surviving cancer.

BY ALLAN GOLDBERG

Web Exclusives

House CallThis article discusses premature menopause as a result of cancer treatments.

BY PATRICIA GANZ, MD

Family Ties

BY LAURA BEIL

The individual & family decisions behind testing for genetic cancer risk.

ARTICLE EXTRAS To Know or Not To Know Treating Cancer Before It Starts Cancer Screening Before Birth Web Exclusive: Cancer Biology & Genetics

The Next Mountain

BY KATHY LATOUR

Survivor first and cyclist second, Lance Armstrong takes on cancer.

ARTICLE EXTRAS
Patience & Strength
On a Mission
For My Son

The Mark of Zora

BY MARC SILVER

Zora Brown's longtime enemy caused her to remake her life to educate African-American women about breast cancer.

ARTICLE EXTRAS
In Her Own Words

Features

A Survivor's Map

BY CURTIS PESMEN

Paradigm shift finds cancer patients no longer on their own.

Features

Taking Control

BY BEVERLY A. CALEY

Cancer survivors deal with fear.

Features

The Cancer Chronicles

BY KATHY LATOUR

Seven recurrences over two decades have given Dr. Wendy Harpham a lot to say about surviving cancer.

Features

Treatment Aftershocks

BY RABIYA S. TUMA, PHD

Survivors guided through territory of long-term and late effects.

Features

Soul Food

BY JENNIFER M. GANGLOFF

Finding inner peace at a cancer retreat.

Features

On the Front Nine

BY LAMBETH HOCHWALD

Arnold Palmer's campaign to affect cancer on the front end takes him beyond the green.

Backstory

An Update from Friends

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

An update on people featured in past issues including Jillian Koluder, Jerry Mayfield, Eli Kahn, Kim White, Patricia Newton, Amanda Olivere, and Wendy Dixon.