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2 S WE ENTER A NEW MILLENNIUM, WE ALSO Principles of Aembark on a new era in the battle against cancer. The tools and a roaches available to medical science for treatment of patients with diagnosed cancer have Cancer Biology moved beyond those predominantly developed through empiric processes of observation and experience. Dra- matic technical advances in the areas of molecular biol- ogy, eukaryotic cell biochemistry, cellular immunology, virology, cytogenetics, cell culture, and animal models of multistage carcinogenesis have provided significant new insights into the molecular basis of cancer biology. This understanding already has opened new doors to David P. Ringer the treatment of cancer. Lowell E. Schnipper One such advance is a novel treatment based on the construction of a monoclonal antibody targeted against a specific cancer cell gene product (e.g., an aberrant cell