Breast Cancer. Seriously?


Book Description

This is an engaging and unique book that uses humor to encourage and empower those impacted by cancer. With 35 colorful illustrations/pages and gentile wit, this book takes you on an adventure through the cancer and chemotherapy experience in a healing and inspirational way. The story begins with a woman who is physically fit and living healthy. Cancer was the last thing she thought could ever happen to her because she was doing everything right. With each turn of the page, the true-life illustrations capture the entire ordeal through the dire and life-shattering diagnosis of breast cancer, surgery, physical changes and chemotherapy side effects. Then the journey takes an amazing turn as a new attitude emerges with positive sparks of change as she begins embracing her new normal. The book concludes with the best of all...healing, loving life and the new you! You will smile when the woman who is about to go bald from chemotherapy takes charge of her hair loss and has the salon cut her hair so short that she feels she looks just like the man leaving the barber shop; or at the golfers watching her wig fly across the golf course on a windy day. This feel-good book acknowledges that cancer can actually, bring about positive change and a new perspective on life. The reader will feel the compassion and understanding they have longed to receive as they recognize their story in the pages of "Breast Cancer. Seriously? Hot Chicks Get Cancer Too. Going from Hot to Not, to Loving Me a Lot."




Breast Cancer Husband


Book Description

A guide for men whose wives contract breast cancer offers emotional support and advice every husband needs, including guidance from breast cancer doctors and the shared experiences of those who have gone through the same ordeal. Original. 30,000 first printing.




Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine


Book Description

Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine, Ninth Edition, offers a balanced view of the most current knowledge of cancer science and clinical oncology practice. This all-new edition is the consummate reference source for medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, internists, surgical oncologists, and others who treat cancer patients. A translational perspective throughout, integrating cancer biology with cancer management providing an in depth understanding of the disease An emphasis on multidisciplinary, research-driven patient care to improve outcomes and optimal use of all appropriate therapies Cutting-edge coverage of personalized cancer care, including molecular diagnostics and therapeutics Concise, readable, clinically relevant text with algorithms, guidelines and insight into the use of both conventional and novel drugs Includes free access to the Wiley Digital Edition providing search across the book, the full reference list with web links, illustrations and photographs, and post-publication updates




Mammography and Beyond


Book Description

Each year more than 180,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women in the U.S. If cancer is detected when small and local, treatment options are less dangerous, intrusive, and costly-and more likely to lead to a cure. Yet those simple facts belie the complexity of developing and disseminating acceptable techniques for breast cancer diagnosis. Even the most exciting new technologies remain clouded with uncertainty. Mammography and Beyond provides a comprehensive and up-to-date perspective on the state of breast cancer screening and diagnosis and recommends steps for developing the most reliable breast cancer detection methods possible. This book reviews the dramatic expansion of breast cancer awareness and screening, examining the capabilities and limitations of current and emerging technologies for breast cancer detection and their effectiveness at actually reducing deaths. The committee discusses issues including national policy toward breast cancer detection, roles of public and private agencies, problems in determining the success of a technique, availability of detection methods to specific populations of women, women's experience during the detection process, cost-benefit analyses, and more. Examining current practices and specifying research and other needs, Mammography and Beyond will be an indispensable resource to policy makers, public health officials, medical practitioners, researchers, women's health advocates, and concerned women and their families.




Pink Hell


Book Description

Dr. Melissa Bailey shares her personal story of battling breast cancer. A "Seinfeld" like story of her adventures dealing with all the ups and downs of the disease. She helps the reader bring a bit of humor to the otherwise dark periods of life. "Pink Hell" is a unique twist of fate as Melissa is a doctor, but never thought she would have to deal with cancer. The book inspires women of all ages to give hope that you too can overcome anything.




Should I Be Tested for Cancer?


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In this thought-provoking volume, a physician and public health expert challenges the notion that detecting cancer early always saves lives.




Advanced Breast Cancer


Book Description

This book discusses the realities of metastatic breast cancer. All aspects of the disease are covered: gathering information; coping with recurrent disease; making treatment choices; communicating with health professionals; and discussing end of life issues. Inspirational stories from those who have been there are also featured.




Digital Breast Tomosynthesis


Book Description

This book provides a comprehensive description of the screening and clinical applications of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and offers straightforward, clear guidance on use of the technique. Informative clinical cases are presented to illustrate how to take advantage of DBT in clinical practice. The importance of DBT as a diagnostic tool for both screening and diagnosis is increasing rapidly. DBT improves upon mammography by depicting breast tissue on a video clip made of cross‐sectional images reconstructed in correspondence with their mammographic planes of acquisition. DBT results in markedly reduced summation of overlapping breast tissue and offers the potential to improve mammographic breast cancer surveillance and diagnosis. This book will be an excellent practical teaching guide for beginners and a useful reference for more experienced radiologists.




Manmade Breast Cancers


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A breast cancer survivor shares her own family history with breast cancer, providing a feminist assessment of the causes, politics, and economics of breast cancer. Explored are such factors as carcinogens and the environment, racial components, domination of the medical field by corporate interests, the issue of breast reconstruction, and other topics. c. Book News Inc.




Breast Cancer? Let Me Check My Schedule!


Book Description

Ten professional women share how they continued to live busy, productive, meaningful lives while they confronted breast cancer.