Summer / 2008

In Every Issue

Editor's Page

Message from the EditorNo longer cancer's safe haven.

BY DEBU TRIPATHY, MD

Letters from Our Readers

Letters from Our ReadersReaders respond to articles on the necessity of palliative care and talking to kids about cancer.

Special Report

Technology Outpaces Privacy ProtectionThe debate about electronic health care tools and patient privacy shows no sign of ending soon.

BY PAUL ENGSTROM

Food for Thought

Not So SweetNew research begins to clarify the link between sugar and cancer.

BY LACEY MEYER

Readers' Forum

How Do I Get Her?Winning Essay: CURE's 2008 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing

BY SHEILA S. MCTHENIA

Drugs in the News

CLL & ConstipationDiscussion of new drugs for CLL and to relieve constipation.

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

Speaking Out

Picking Up the PaceIgniting progress in the cure of children with cancer.

BY PETER C. ADAMSON, MD

Web Exclusives

What Patients Need to Know About ChemobrainWhat the latest research shows about chemobrain after breast cancer therapy.

BY KENNETH D. MILLER, MD

A Skin Cancer Conundrum: Are AKs Overtreated?Answers to the treatment debate for actinic keratosis, a precancerous growth on the skin.

BY CURTIS PESMEN

No Child Left Behind

BY LAURA BEIL

Childhood cancer garners sympathy from all, but drug development from few.

ARTICLE EXTRAS Kids and Adults: What's the Difference? Clinical Trials: Time for a Redesign? Taking Up the Fight Timeline: The Path to Expanding Research Web Exclusive: Treatments for Childhood Cancer

A Better Way to the Brain

BY NICOLE LEBRASSEUR, PHD

New technology and smart drugs take a direct approach to targeting brain tumors.

ARTICLE EXTRAS
Managing Symptoms: Tumor Effects
For the Caregiver: When the Patient's Personality Changes
Web Exclusive: When Cancer Spreads to the Brain
Illustration: Deep Impact
Illustration: Mapping Out the Brain

Dancing In Limbo

BY KATHY LATOUR

Three women share the uncertainty of living with metastatic breast cancer.

ARTICLE EXTRAS
Metastatic Breast Cancer: Understanding the Complexities
Finding Support
Young & Metastatic
Web Exclusive: Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Grows

Breaking News

Breaking News from ASCO

BY STAFF REPORTS

Updates from the 2008 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology includes news on lung, breast, colorectal, and kidney cancers.

First Line

People, News & Events

EDITED BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

The Advocate / Legislative Watch / People Report / The Place To Be / Prevention / House Call / Childhood Cancer / Destination / On The Web / Bookshelf

Diagnosis Cancer

The Diagnosis Dilemma

BY MARC SILVER

To tell or not to tell?

Finding Hope

Forward Motion

BY LENA HUANG

Exercise programs prove beneficial for cancer patients.

Moving On

Good Behavior

BY KATY HUMAN

Cancer survivors are motivated to change their lifestyle through exercise, nutrition, and healthier behaviors.

Caregivers' Corner

The Guilt Factor

BY MICKEY GOODMAN

Releasing guilt's grip on the caregiver left behind.