Books

Robert Buckman, What You Really Need to Know About Cancer. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Down-to-earth description of symptoms, tests, and treatments for different kinds of cancer as well as a general discussion of cancer, its causes, and how patients and their families can live with it.

Dean King, Jessica King, and Jonathan Pearlroth, Cancer Combat. New York: Bantam, 1998. Fascinating collection of accounts of and tips on dealing with cancer and cancer treatments by people who have survived the disease.

Robert N. Proctor, Cancer Wars. New York: BasicBooks, 1995. Discusses how politics affects (and often inhibits) cancer research, especially research into preventable environmental causes of cancer.

Michael Waldholz, Curing Cancer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Account of recent discoveries about the genetic changes that underlie cancer and the people who made them.

Periodicals

Mark Caldwell, "Beyond the Lab Rat," Discover, May 1996. Christine...