CHAPTER ONE

 1. Understanding Cancer

 2. When First Diagnosed: What You Need to Learn

 2.1 The Three Essential Properties of Cancer

2.2 Understanding How Cancer Spreads

 2.3 Diagnosis, Staging, Curability

 2.3.1 Making a Diagnosis of Cancer

2.3.2 Determining the Extent or Stage of Cancer

 2.3.3 Estimating Curability

 3 Understanding Specific Cancers

 3.1 Carcinomas

 3.2 Blood and Lymph Cancers

3.3 Sarcomas

3.4 Brain Tumors

4. Why Cancer Develops

 4.1 Cancer and the Blueprint for Life

 4.2 Family Cancers

 4.3 Cancer and the Environment

 4.4 Why Do Only Some People Get Cancer?

5.  Attacking Cancer

 6. How Cancer Grows: The Basis of Cancer Treatments

 7. Cancer Develops over Decades

 7.1 Cancer Grows by Organized Chaos

 7.2 Cancer Can Grow Unpredictably

 7.3 Cancer Is Survival of the Fittest

 7.4 The Devil Is in the Details

 8. Cancer Treatments Revolve around Metastasis

 9. After Surgery: “Why Do I Need Chemo If I’m Cancer Free?”

 9.1 Eye on the Prize: Complete Cancer Eradication

 9.2 When Surgery Is Not the First Step

 9.3 Metastatic Disease: Cure versus Control

 9.4 How a Treatment Strategy Is Chosen

 9.5 Cancer in the Older Individual

 9.6 The Role of Surgery in Metastatic Cancer

 9.7 The Role of Radiation Therapy in Metastatic Cancer

 10.  Cancer Treatments at Work

 10.1 A New Era of Hope

 10.2 Targeting the Lifelines of Cancer

 10.3 Chemotherapy

 10.4 Targeted Therapies

 10.5 Hormone Therapies

 10.6 Radiation Therapy

 10.7 Why Do Cancer Treatments Sometimes Fail?

 11. Get Prepared to Survive

 11.1 Survivorship and the Power of People

 11. 2 Survival Is Spelled LMNOP

 11. 3 Final Thoughts

 CHAPTER TWO

 1. Types of Cancer Medicine

 2.  More Information

 3. Glossary of Terms

 4. References