1. Overview of cancer assessment, diagnostics and therapeutics2. Cell viability and apoptic assays to assess drug efficacy3. Assays to assess the proliferative behavior of cancer cells4. Assays to evaluate tumor angiogenesis5. Assays and protocols for the detection of cancer metastasis6. Isolation and characterization of cancer stem cells 7. Histopathology-based cancer detection methods8. Molecular imaging in tumor diagnosis and treatment9. High throughput cell-based screening methods for cancer drug discovery10. Nanotechnology in cancer therapeutics: cerium oxide nanomaterials as cancer therapeutic agents