Previous ed.: published as by Zora K. Brown, LaSalle D. Lefall Jr., with Elizabeth Platt. Boston, Mass.; London: Jones & Bartlett, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-248) and index.
Contents:
The basics -- Background information about breast cancer -- Risk factors and prevention -- Risk factors and ways of minimizing breast cancer risk -- Diagnosis -- Steps in determining whether you have breast cancer -- Treatment -- Treatment options, treatment side effects and complications, options for breast reconstruction, and prospects of recurrence -- Coping with treatment and side effects -- Issues related to pain, hair loss, and other side effects, and practical matters such as financial and legal issues related to treatment -- Changes cancer brings -- Ways to cope with emotional and physical changes that occur after cancer diagnosis and treatment -- The impact of cancer on sexualtiy, intimacy, and fertility -- The effects that breast cancer can have, and how to deal with these issues, on a woman's sexuality and fertility.
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