Clinical Trials: Time for a Redesign?
Researchers explore ways to improve drug evaluations in pediatric clinical trials.
Taking Up the Fight
Advocates are working together to increase awareness and research in childhood cancers.
Timeline: The Path to Expanding Research
Drug development in childhood cancer has picked up the pace in recent years.
Web Exclusive: Treatments for Childhood Cancer
Resources for identifying and understanding treatments for childhood cancer.
Message from the Editor
No longer cancer's safe haven.
Birth Control Pill Prevents 200,000 Ovarian Cancers
Oral contraceptives decrease incidence of ovarian cancer.
Q&A: Hormone Replacement Therapy
Dr. Len answers the question: “Does discontinuing hormone replacement therapy increase risk of breast cancer?”
A Sense of Duty
A soldier returns home to help his sister through leukemia treatment.
The Light Within: the Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer
A gynecologic oncologist and her patient form an unusual friendship.
Kennedy Diagnosed With Malignant Brain Tumor
Edward Kennedy and Sydney Pollack.
Childhood Cancer Survivors at Increased Risk for Heart Problems
Childhood cancer survivors are at higher risk for heart disease.
Kokolulu Cancer Retreat Center on the Big Island of Hawaii
Hawaiian retreat offers relaxation.
Letters from Our Readers
Readers respond to articles on the necessity of palliative care and talking to kids about cancer.
Technology Outpaces Privacy Protection
The debate about electronic health care tools and patient privacy shows no sign of ending soon.
Cancer.Net
Patient website gets a makeover.
Maine and Kentucky Make Strides in Reducing Colorectal Cancer
Two more states guarantee colon screening coverage.
Not So Sweet
New research begins to clarify the link between sugar and cancer.
How to React to the News
Here are some reaction guidelines from survivors and cancer therapists for well-meaning family and friends.
Exercise Programs: Cross Country
A number of exercise programs exist specifically for cancer patients who want to rehabilitate and get in shape.
How Do I Get Her?
Winning Essay: CURE's 2008 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing
CLL & Constipation
Discussion of new drugs for CLL and to relieve constipation.
Web Exclusive: Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Grows
Cancer researchers are testing a variety of new treatments for patients with metastatic breast cancer.
Picking Up the Pace
Igniting progress in the cure of children with cancer.
Tools for Coping
A number of approaches have proved beneficial for anxiety.