100 Questions and Answers About Breast Cancer, Third Edition
Description
A question and answer guide to breast cancer, written by Zora K. Brown, a breast cancer advocate and survivor, with Karl K. Boatman, a cancer surgeon. This is the third edition, updated and revised.
The book is organized as 100 questions covering risk factors and prevention, diagnosis and treatment options, quality of life after treatment, and where to find support. This edition adds a section on the effects of cancer on sexuality, intimacy, and fertility.
This guide covers breast cancer generally. For advanced or metastatic disease, the companion title in this series covers that specifically.
Illustrated paperback, 260 pages, 6.34 by 8.96 inches. Published March 2009.
Medical guidance changes over time. Your care team has the most current information for your situation.
Why It Matters
Treatment moves quickly, and appointments focus on what happens next. Sexuality, intimacy, and fertility tend to fall outside that, partly because there is rarely time and partly because they are awkward to bring up with someone you met two weeks ago. So they wait. And some of them cannot wait, because certain decisions have to be made before treatment starts rather than after.
A reference that covers these openly does two things. It tells you the questions exist, which is often the hard part. And it lets you read about them privately, so that when you do raise them with your care team, you already know what you want to ask.
These are not side issues. They shape the years after treatment as much as anything discussed in an exam room.
A question and answer guide to breast cancer, written by Zora K. Brown, a breast cancer advocate and survivor, with Karl K. Boatman, a cancer surgeon. This is the third edition, updated and revised.
The book is organized as 100 questions covering risk factors and prevention, diagnosis and treatment options, quality of life after treatment, and where to find support. This edition adds a section on the effects of cancer on sexuality, intimacy, and fertility.
This guide covers breast cancer generally. For advanced or metastatic disease, the companion title in this series covers that specifically.
Illustrated paperback, 260 pages, 6.34 by 8.96 inches. Published March 2009.
Medical guidance changes over time. Your care team has the most current information for your situation.
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