Choices in breast cancer treatment : medical specialists and cancer survivors tell you what you need to know

Author(s)

• Miller, Kenneth D.

Bibliographic Information

Choices in breast cancer treatment : medical specialists and cancer survivors tell you what you need to know

edited by Kenneth D. Miller

（A Johns Hopkins Press health book）

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008

• hardcover
• pbk
• hardcover
• pbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A diagnosis of breast cancer can be overwhelming. The disease is frightening and the medical landscape confusing. In the wake of fear and confusion comes the need to make decisions about treatment. This book provides women with medically reliable and up-to-date information to help them with these decisions. Within these pages is a team of private consultants-including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologists, plastic surgeons, and women who have faced breast cancer-each of whom offers sound advice and valuable insight. In addition to describing surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and breast reconstruction, the medical experts clarify choices and offer support, while breast cancer survivors tell their own stories of pain, perseverance, and triumph. Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment is a rare blend of medical expertise and compelling personal accounts that empowers those with breast cancer to meet the disease with confidence, knowledge, and hope.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Understanding the Choices Part 1. The Big Picture Chapter 1. Making Decisions Chapter 2. What is Breast Cancer? Chapter 3. A Statistic of One Chapter 4. "Why Me?" A Discussion of Risk Part 2. Understanding the Treatments: The Doctor's Perspectives Chapter 5. Assembling the Treatment Team and Charting a Course Chapter 6. Facing Surgery Chapter 7. Profiles of Two Breast Surgeons Chapter 8. Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer Chapter 9. Profiles of Two Radiation Oncologists Chapter 10. Beyond Local Therapy: Hormonal Therapy and Chemotherapy Chapter 11. Profiles of Three Medical Oncologists Chapter 12. Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy: What Are My Options? Chapter 13. Profiles of two Reconstructive Surgeons Chapter 14. Treatment Options for Metastatic Breast Cancer Part 3. Notes on the Experience of Having Breast Cancer Chapter 15. The Shock of Finding Out Chapter 16. Neccessary Decisions: Surgery, Radiation Therapy, and Breast Reconstruction Chapter 17. Considering Adjuvant Therapy Chapter 18. Reflections on the Experiemce Part 4. Survivors Tell Their Stories Chapter 19. Stories from Women at High Risk Chapter 20. Stories from Women with Non-Invasive Breast Cancer Chapter 21. Stories from Women wityh Invasive Breast Cancer Chapter 22. Stories from Women with Advanced Breast Cancer Part 5. When Cancer Specialists Get Cancer Chapter 23. A Professional and a Patient Chapter 24. Lessons Learned Chapter 25. "You're Going to Live" Conclusion: The Agony and the Opportunity of Choice About the Contributors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB00831373
• ISBN:
  • 9780801886843
  • 9780801886850
  • 0801886848
  • 0801886856
• LCCN: 2007020366
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: x, 405 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RC280.B8
  • DC22 : 362.196/99449
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Breast -- Cancer -- Treatment -- Decision making
  • MESH : Breast Neoplasms -- therapy -- Popular Works
  • MESH : Decision Making -- Popular Works
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA29075548