Breast Cancer: The Facts
Series: The Facts Series;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 November 2018
- ISBN 9780198813040
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 196x129x9 mm
- Weight 174 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Concise and accessible, Breast Cancer: The Facts guides the newly-diagnosed breast cancer patient through what they can expect to encounter on their journey. Updated to include new treatment options, and more information for the patient's family and friends, this is an essential yet approachable guide.
MoreLong description:
Breast Cancer: The Facts provides essential, easy to follow information on all aspects of the diagnosis and management of breast cancer. It provides essential background information on the disease, from the ways breast problems are investigated, through treatment options and new therapies, to follow-up processes after remission.
Fully updated to cover new and emerging therapies in breast cancer, this second edition also features new chapters on treating special or unusual types of breast cancer; surviving and thriving post-treatment; and coping and support strategies for the partners, families, friends, and colleagues of the person diagnosed with breast cancer. Each chapter is enriched with resources such as websites, links to videos, and care plans so the reader can explore relevant topics in greater detail.
Written by specialists in breast cancer, the focus is on the whole patient, their family, and social networks, to make this book a holistic guide to better health at and after diagnosis with the disease, equipping patients affected by breast cancer and their families to be able to ask their health care team the questions they need to have answered to make informed decisions about their treatment.
This is a slim, concise book that covers the basics of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment ... Overall, the authors pack a lot of information into a little more than 130 pages. Their writing style is crisp and clear, and the book is nicely illustrated with simple line drawings.
Table of Contents:
Who is at risk of breast cancer, when, and what you can do about it
Healthy breasts
How a breast problem is investigated
What is breast cancer?
Treating breast cancer
Surgical treatments
Radiotherapy
Drug (systemic) therapy for early breast cancer
Treating special types of breast cancer
Surviving and Thriving
Follow up
Advanced (metastatic) and recurrent cancer
For partners and family and friends and colleagues affected by breast cancer
Special situations
The Future - what tests and treatments may be around the corner
