Preface
I. WHAT IS CANCER?
Cancer and other four letter words
Anything grows
Why tumors seem wild
Man as a hole
II. WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT CANCER
Not another breakthrough
Statistics
Chemical carcinogenesis
Tobacco is a deadly weed
Radiation and cancer
Embryos, genes and cancer
Yes, Virginia, viruses do cause cancer
Cancer immunology
Everything you want to know about sex and cancer
Is cancer inherited?
Why some tumors spread
Is there an answer?
III. PEOPLE AND CANCER
Is it cancer, doctor?
The doctor said "He'll be dead in a year," and he isn't
When in doubt, cut it out!
Radical surgery
Chemotherapy and radiation therapy
The scientist and the therapist
Leukemia in children
To treat or not to treat
Go to a cancer quack; it's your life
How to pick a doctor
Prevention is better
The mind and cancer
Fear
To tell the truth
Forgiving
On impending death
L'envoi ,
IV. CANCER POLITICS
Most of this section has been omited because it is no longer applicable; except for the following chapter:
Scientists, research and discovery
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES