• President’s Comments: Cancer’s Impact on South Dakotans–Thomas J. Huber, MD, SDSMA President
• From the Department of Health–Doneen B. Hollingsworth
• Editorial–Keith Hansen, MD; H. Bruce Vogt, MD, Co-Editors

The Journal

• Epidemiology of the Four Major Cancers in South Dakota–Jacy Clarke, PhD
• Genetic and Familial Factors Influencing Breast, Colon, Prostate and Lung
  Cancers–Quinn P. Stein, MS, CGC; Jason D. Flanagan, MS, CGC
• Breast Cancer Screening Update and Evaluation of the High-Risk Patient–Thomas M Cink, MD, FACR, FCCP
• Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer–Juliann Reiland-Smith, MD, FACS
• The Role of Radiation Therapy in the Management of Breast Cancer in South Dakota–Michael J. Schwartz, MD; Daniel G. Petereit, MD
• Prostate Cancer Screening: What’s a Fellow to Do?–Fredric H. Thanel, MD, MPH; Mark K. Huntington, MD, PhD
• Surgical Treatment of Prostate Cancer: What to Do?– Paul Eckrich, MD
• Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening in South Dakota–Laura Seeff, MD; Norma Schmidt, MA
• Chemotherapy Principles for Breast, Prostate, Colon and Lung Cancer–Michael Keppen, MD
• Surgical Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer–Verlyn Nykamp, MD
• The Role of Radiation Therapy in the Management of Lung, Prostate and Colorectal Cancer in South Dakota–Michael J. Schwartz, MD; Daniel G. Petereit, MD
• Surgical Treatment of Colon Cancer–Eric Rolfsmeyer, MD
• South Dakota Cancer Registry: South Dakota’s Cancer Surveillance System

Special Features

• Quality Focus: Colorectal Cancer Screening
• DAKOTACARE Update: Cancer: To Screen or Not to Screen? A Payer’s Perspective–E. Paul Amundson, MD

About the Authors

• Click here to read more about the special edition's contributing authors.

The SDSMA would like to extend its thanks to all of the people who made this special edition of South Dakota Medicine possible:

• The South Dakota Department of Health for its generous grant that made the issue possible.
• Tim Lundin of Dakotapix Photography, for allowing the SDSMA to enhance the journal's articles with his pictures, including the cover.
• Dr. Keith Hansen and Dr. H. Bruce Vogt, the journal's co-editors, for keeping this project on the right track throughout its production.
• Keith Hansen from The Art Department in Brandon, SD, who provides the graphic design for South Dakota Medicine.