| Foreword | 5 |
| Introduction: Why This Book? | 7 |
| 1. | What Is Cancer? How Good Cells Go Wrong | 11 |
| 2. | What Causes Cancer? Biological, Environmental, and Lifestyle Triggers | 22 |
| 3. | Has It Spread? How Far? Tests and Procedures You Might Expect | 38 |
| 4. | What Kind of Cancer Is It? Six Common Types of Cancer | 60 |
| Breast Cancer | 61 |
| Lung Cancer | 88 |
| Prostate Cancer | 98 |
| Colon and Rectal Cancer | 109 |
| Ovarian Cancer | 121 |
| Skin Cancer: Melanoma | 129 |
| 5. | What Can You Do for Me, Doc? Surgery, Radiation, Chemotherapy, and Biological Treatments | 139 |
| 6. | What Are My Rights? What to Expect as a Cancer Patient | 168 |
| 7. | What about Alternative Medicine? Sorting Out True from False Promises | 176 |
| 8. | Is There a Mind-Body Connection? What to Think of Some of Its Most Prominent Proponents | 195 |
| 9. | Dare I Hope for Healing? A Balanced Approach to the Possibility of Getting Well | 212 |
| 10. | Why Me, God? The Age-Old Problem of Evil--And Some Answers We Can't Accept | 238 |
| 11. | Is Cancer Part of God's Plan? Some Promising Answers to the Age-Old Question | 244 |
| 12. | What to Think When There Are No Answers: Coming to Terms with God's Mystery | 260 |
| 13. | How Do I Cope? Sources of Spiritual Peace and Strength | 265 |
| 14. | Why Not Suicide? Another Look at the Kevorkian Approach | 283 |
| 15. | What Is Hospice? Dying with Dignity | 299 |
| 16. | Is There Life after Cancer? How to Live Day to Day Once Everything Has Changed | 308 |
| Appendix A | A Little Peek at Cellular Transcription and Translation | 325 |
| Appendix B | Interventional Radiologists | 331 |
| Appendix C | Important Sources for Cancer Support | 335 |
| Notes | 339 |
| Index | 345 |