The International Journal of Cancer accepts manuscripts for submission under a broad scope of topics relevant to expirmental and clinical cancer research. Subjects we will consider include but are not limited to: cancer cell biology cancer genetics tumor virology tumor immunology cancer therapy and epidemiology and cancer prevention. The six issue topical section Predictive Oncology expands the Journal's coverage into the area of predicting human cancer risk from molecular genetic epidemiologic and statistical data. Predictive Oncology explores the development and application of DNA-based probes that identify biomarkers linked to cancer as well as the results of current investigations using other novel molecular probes as diagnostic and prognostic indicators for cancer detection and therapy.