Summer / 2006

In Every Issue

Editor's Page

Message from the Editor-at-LargeCURE Forums are a go-go.

BY KATHY LATOUR

Letters from Our Readers

Letters from Our ReadersReaders respond to articles about chronic pain, positive thinking, and The Waiting Game.

Special Report

Is It Time to Change the Design of Clinical Trials? Some cancer researchers are questioning whether clinical trial designs should be updated.

BY ALICE MCCARTHY

Food for Thought

Drink UpKeeping hydrated during therapy is essential for cancer patients.

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

Readers' Forum

A Life Well-LivedFinding comfort in life's new territory.

BY DEBORAH LANG HAMPTON

Drugs in the News

Breast Cancer & MDSBreast cancer prevention trial and Dacogen approved for myelodysplastic syndromes.

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

Speaking Out

To Be or Not To Be: Is That the Right Question?Distinguishing death with dignity from the right to die movement.

BY HARVEY MAX CHOCHINOV, MD PHD

Web Exclusives

A Beautiful Day: The Story of a Son's LossRemembering and honoring his mother’s memory, a son recalls one of her last days.

BY KEVIN CROPP

BookshelfPhysician as healer.

BY KATHY LATOUR

House CallDr. Jay Thomas discusses solutions to opioid-induced constipation.

BY JAY THOMAS, MD, PHD

People & PlacesSoraya, Arnold Palmer, and Earl Woods

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

Surf & Turf

BY JENNIFER M. GANGLOFF

From sea to soil, nature spurs cancer drug development.

ARTICLE EXTRAS The Discovery of Taxol Nature's Spoils Glossary Illustration: Global Findings: Nature & Drugs Chart: Natural Products in the Pipeline

Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer: Saving Your Skin

BY MONICA ZANGWILL, MD

Treating and preventing the nation's most common cancer.

ARTICLE EXTRAS
Diagnosing Skin Cancer
Science of Suncreen
Sunburn Reasons & Remedies
Picture Not Perfect
Melanoma: The Other Skin Cancer
Web Exclusive: Follow-Up Care for Skin Cancer
Illustration: Skin Cancer & the Sun
Illustration: Mohs Surgery
Illustration: Physiology of a Tan

Confronting Death

BY JO CAVALLO

Understanding how and why people approach death differently.

ARTICLE EXTRAS
Does Heaven Exist?
Sharing a Lifetime
Planning for Death

Breaking News

Breaking News from ASCO

BY STAFF REPORTS

Updates from the 2006 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Diagnosis Cancer

The Blame Game

BY KATHY LATOUR

Moving past myriad rationales for cancer guilt.

Finding Hope

Running on Empty

BY MELISSA KNOPPER

Treatment-induced neutropenia hinders ability to fight infection.

Moving On

Future Risk for Survivors

BY RABIYA S. TUMA, PHD

Certain aggressive treatments may increase the risk of late effects, including secondary cancers.

Caregivers' Corner

Fighting Cancer Together

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

Couple faces near-simultaneous cancer diagnoses.