Summer / 2007

In Every Issue

Editor's Page

Message from the EditorThe ethics of cancer research and how it affects you.

BY MELISSA WEBER

Letters from Our Readers

Letters from Our Readers Readers respond to past articles on the age factor, men as caregivers and advocates, and online information resources.

Special Report

Direct-To-Consumer-Advertising: Education or Confusion? Drug companies’ advertisements promoting their wares directly to consumers have soared since 1997.

BY EMMA JOHNSON

Food for Thought

Fatigue-Fighting FoodsWhat patients eat may boost energy.

BY JENNIFER M. GANGLOFF

Readers' Forum

2007 Extraordinary Healer Award FinalistsPatients honor their oncology nurses.

BY RACHEL BAUMGARTNER AND TERRI SCHINAZI

Drugs in the News

Kidney Cancer & Prostate CancerThe FDA approves third kidney cancer drug and blood-clotting therapy while delaying review on a prostate cancer vaccine, and one drug edges another in a colorectal cancer clinical trial.

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

Speaking Out

A Hole In The WorldDana Reeve's death revealed the other face of lung cancer.

BY DEBORAH MOROSINI, MD

Web Exclusives

Raising Their VoicesYoung adults with cancer create a movement through music, and they’re taking it on the road.

BY LACEY MEYER

What I've Learned About Living Well with IllnessCancer—the uninvited teacher— leaves a new understanding of what’s important.

BY ERIC KINGSON

No Smoking

BY KATY HUMAN

What's to blame for lung cancer in people who never smoked, and what that means for treatment and survival.

ARTICLE EXTRAS The Stigma of Lung Cancer Should Lung Cancer Screening Be Standard? Treating Tobacco-Related Lung Cancer Web Exclusive: Other Cancers of the Lung Illustration: A Host of Factors

Surgeons and Robots

BY BEVERLY A. CALEY

Minimally invasive technologies transform the landscape of cancer surgery.

ARTICLE EXTRAS
Less Can Be More in Diagnostic Imaging
Learning New Tricks
Illustration: The da Vinci Robot

In Whose Best Interest?

BY HEATHER L. VAN EPPS, PHD

Exposing the ethical dilemmas of clinical trials reveals a balance between researchers, drug companies, and patients.

ARTICLE EXTRAS
Ethics of Access
The End Is Just the Beginning
Should I Take Part in a Clinical Trial?
Web Exclusive: Ethics of Animal Testing

Breaking News

Breaking News from ASCO

BY STAFF REPORTS

Updates from the 2007 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology includes news on liver, kidney, lung, colon, pancreatic and breast cancers.

First Line

People, News & Events

EDITED BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

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

Diagnosis Cancer

Portal Authority

BY MARC SILVER

Patients log on to access medical records and talk with doctors.

Finding Hope

Precious Tumor

BY CHARLOTTE HUFF

What happens to cancer tissue and why it's so valuable to researchers.

Moving On

Surviving "Survivor" Stereotypes

BY CURTIS PESMEN

Patients face how cancer will define them once treatment ends.

Caregivers' Corner

The Secret of Caregivers

BY JO CAVALLO

When caregivers feel they have no choice, the challenging role can take its toll.