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Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide
  • Published: 15 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553385915
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99

Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide

Fifth Edition

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20 Jan 2009
Paperback
15 Oct 2008
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Written by two renowned authorities who specialize in the treatment of breast cancer, a surgeon and an oncologist, this lucid step-by-step guide has established itself as the indispensable book women need to make informed decisions about the care that is right for them.

Breast cancer will strike one out of every eight women in the United States. Because there have been many important changes in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in the last few years, this fully revised Third Edition contains information on the latest developments in the field, including:

• new diagnostic procedures
• changes in the treatment of in situ cancer
• improved surgical techniques
• gene testing
• sequencing radiation and chemotherapy
• HER-2Neu (Herceptin)
• tamoxifen for prevention
• bone marrow and stem cell transplants
• and more
  • Published: 15 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553385915
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99
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Praise for Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide

  • "Both timely and current... providing essential information in a warm, supportive fashion in a readable and understandable format... Deserves to be in every library and every oncologist's office." - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • "The place to turn when breast cancer strikes...the authors provide both the support and every scrap of the information that a woman needs to get the right treatment from the right doctor...carefully organized and readable." - The New York Times
  • "This is a humane, compassionate book which nonetheless manages to be straightforward and comprehensive; the authors have succeeded in addressing the many questions (and the fears) of breast cancer patients, and have done a thorough and sensitive job." - SHARE
  • "Here are the facts - clear, unterrifying, and important." - Betty Rollin, author of First You Cry
  • "Highly recommended" - Library Journal