The foremost cancer--revisited.

In 1969, the late Roald M. Grant, MD, then Editor in Chief of CA, wrote an editorial on breast cancer titled "The Foremost Cancer." In this issue, Jeanne A. Petrek, MD, an Associate Attending Surgeon in the Department of Surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Arthur I. Holleb, MD, CA's Editor Emeritus, update Dr. Grant's essay on breast cancer and comment on the articles that appear in this issue.