Part I: Speciation

Chapter 1. What Properties Are Shared by All Cancers?

Chapter 2. Carcinogenesis

Chapter 3. The Mystery of Tumor Diversity and of Type-Specific Tumor Uniformity

Chapter 4. The Range of Neoplastic Phenotypes

Chapter 5. What Can We Learn About Human Neoplasms by Studying Animals, Plants, Fish, and Insects?

Part II. Classification

Chapter 6. What Does Classification of All Animals Tell Us About the Classification of All Neoplasms?

Chapter 7. Classification of Neoplasms

Chapter 8. Classification by Morphology (What the Tumor Looks Like)

Chapter 9. Classification by Cause

Chapter 10. Classification by Topography (Where the Tumor Is Located)

Chapter 12. Classification by Function and Common Pathways

Chapter 13. Molecular Classification of Neoplasms

Chapter 14. Classification by Developmental Lineage Is Best

Chapter 15. The Six Major Classes of Neoplasms

Chapter 16. Ectodermal and Endodermal Neoplasms

Chapter 17. Mesodermal Neoplasms

Chapter 18. Tumors of Neuroectoderm (Central Nervous System)

Chapter 19. Neural Crest Neoplasms

Chapter 20. Neoplasms of Class Germ Cell and Class Trophectoderm

Chapter 21. Specialized Cancer Nomenclatures and the Developmental Lineage Classification and Taxonomy of Neoplasms

Chapter 22. Cancer Ontologies

Part III. Cancer Research and the End of Neoplasms

Chapter 23. Class-Dependent Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment

Chapter 24. Finding Neoplasms: Suggestions for Cancer Researchers

Chapter 25. Principles