Breast Health Awareness
- 100 Questions and Answers About Breast Cancer
by Zora K. Brown, Lasalle D., Leffall Jr.One in eight American women will learn that she has breast cancer. Whether you are a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. The text provides the doctor and patient's view, 100 Questions and Answers About Breast Cancer gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. The book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.
- Breast Cancer Management: Application of Evidence to Patient Care
Jean-Marc Nabholtz, EditorInitiated by the Breast Cancer International Research Group, “Breast Cancer Management” begins with a discussion of clinical trials and how to evaluate clinical evidence, then presents reviews of the available data for a variety of treatment modalities: chemotherapy, high-dose chemotherapy, hormone therapy, biological response modifiers, surgical treatment (special issues), radiation therapy, supportive therapy, and prognostic/predictive factors. The final sections cover integration of new therapies into breast cancer management, issues of neoadjuvant treatment for locally advanced or inflammatory disease, the controversial problem of DCIS and LCIS, and the Internet, health professionals and the health consumer.
- Breast Cancer: A Psychological Treatment Manual
Sandra Harber, Catherine Acuff, Lauren Ayers, Esther L. Freeman, Carol Goodheart, Christine C. Kieffer, Louise B. Lubin, Susan G. Mikesell, Michele Siegel, & Barbara R. WainribAs the incidence of breast cancer among women has risen there has been a growing need among mental health professionals to understand both the medical and psychological effects of this devastating illness. This volume, originally published by the Division of Independent Practice of the American Psychological Association, is designed to educate as well as involve therapists and counselors in the psychological treatment of patients and their families. This collaborative venture of 10 women psychologists addresses the emotional responses of patients, families, and caretakers. The contributors also examine the psychological, social, and behavioral factors that may influence cancer morbidity and mortality. This volume is intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, nurse therapists, and other mental health professionals.
- Breast Cancer: The Facts You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond
Pat Kelly, Mark Levine (Contributor)One in eight American women will learn that she has breast cancer. While survival rates are improving, the diagnosis still wreaks havoc on their lives and families. A complex illness, breast cancer affects all aspects of a woman's life: her physical health and future well-being, her primary relationships, her children, her self-esteem, her sexuality.
This informative book serves to enlighten and empower women who have breast cancer, while providing valuable information and insight for those who love them. The book's topics include: finding out you have breast cancer; how to get help and find information; working with your doctor; the emotional aspects of the disease; treatment options: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation; physical side effects of treatment; nurturing yourself and your relationships; follow-up care; what to expect after treatment ends; and recurrence.
- Breast Cancer: Web Resource Guide for Consumers, Healthcare Providers, Patients, and Physicians
Eugene A. DeFelice, M.D.Breast Cancer: Web Resource Guide for Consumers, Healthcare Providers, Patients and Physicians by Eugene A. De Felice, M.D., provides a very helpful guide to quickly and easily search the Web to obtain current, comprehensive, and useful information on breast cancer. With such information, you can take charge, control, and responsibility and make informed decisions with your healthcare provider/physician regarding breast cancer-its prevention, diagnosis and treatment-and live a healthier, longer, happier, and more enjoyable life.
- Breast Fitness: An Optimal Exercise and Health Plan for Reducing Your Risk of Breast Cancer
Anne, Md., Ph.D. McTiernan, Julie, Md. Gralow, and Lisa TalbottLifestyle changes-especially exercise-can have a profound impact on a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and her chances of survival, say the authors of “Breast Fitness,” all of whom are breast-cancer specialists. The authors present the facts about breast cancer, argue the merits of exercise and dietary changes, and suggest exercise and nutrition guidelines to fit various needs. The aim of “Breast Fitness,” is to help motivate and educate women to fight breast cancer with exercise, nutrition, and other lifestyle changes.
- Cancer Survivor's Nutrition & Health Guide: Eating Well and Getting Better During and After Cancer Treatment
Gene A. Spiller, Ph.D. and Bonnie Bruce, DR.P.H., R.D.Cancer Survivor's Nutrition & Health Guide” offers 100 healthful, easy-on-the-stomach recipes for those undergoing cancer treatment and those rebuilding their health afterward. This is a user-friendly approach to solving one of the toughest aspects of cancer treatment-maintaining a healthy diet when nothing looks or tastes good. Menu plans and meal suggestions are offered for the days before and after chemo or radiation treatment, comfort foods infused with added nutrients, and how to include needed nutrients in the diet.
- Group Psychotherapy for Women With Breast Cancer
James L., Phd Spira, Geoffrey M., Phd ReeAmerican Board of Professional Psychology. Text contains information on the group therapy process. Discusses various experiences, and supplies tools for therapists beginning groups. Provides a clinical framework for professionals to train in helping group members adjust to the diagnosis of breast cancer, cope with treatment, and considering its impact on life.
- I Flunked My Mammogram
Bodai, E.I Flunked My Mammogram presents current information in an easy-to-read format. Subjects include screening for breast cancer, diagnosis and treatment, and recovery. The appendices include commonly used medications, clinical guidelines for practitioners, glossary of terms, resources and organizations. This book is appropriate for patients, and practitioners can use it for instructing patients.
- Pocket Guide to Breast Cancer
Karen Hussey DowPocket Guide to Breast Cancer is an easy-to-use, day-to-day reference for nurses caring for patients with breast cancer and their families. Completely updated to accompany Contemporary Issues in Breast Cancer, this handy pocket guide includes information from the text along with new information on screening and early detection, surgical techniques, and cancer-related fatigue and sleep disturbance. It also includes the latest information on the epidemiology, screening, assessment, and treatment of breast cancer. Features a section devoted to quality-of-life issues and list of web sites dedicated to breast cancer.
- Reduce Your Breast Cancer Risks: Basic Facts Plus Four Simple Changes That Work
Joyce C. SmolkinReduce Your Breast Cancer Risks: Basic Facts Plus Four Simple Changes That Work” assists women searching for a route to a healthier future that includes a reduced risk of developing breast cancer. In one complete package it clarifies the latest breast cancer research data, protocols, and myths; defines unavoidable and controllable risk factors; and outlines a four-step program for better health that includes a complete breast health program, plus nutrition, exercise and stress management facts, and realistic strategies for making changes.
- Show Me
Penn State Hershey Medical Center's Breast Cancer Support GroupShow Me: A Photo Collection of Breast Cancer Survivors' Lumpectomies, Mastectomies, Breast Reconstruction, and Thoughts on Body Image - Second Edition is a visual resource book presenting color photographs of and commentary from thirty breast cancer survivors mostly from the Penn State Hershey Medical Center's Breast Cancer Support Group in Hershey, PA. This book is the first of its kind to provide photographs which enable a woman newly diagnosed with breast cancer to see in color the lumpectomy, mastectomy, and reconstruction scars of a variety of women - different sizes, shapes, ages, and skin colors.
- Solving the Mystery of Breast Discharge
Judy KneeceSolving The Mystery Of Breast Discharge” features:
- Describes normal and abnormal discharges and how to determine which you have.
- Lists prescription and over-the-counter medications that may cause or promote breast discharge.
- Describes common activities that can cause a normal breast discharge.
- Details steps to identify different types of discharge.
- Lists cost-free remedies that may reduce or stop breast discharge.
- Provides worksheets to assess causes of breast discharge.
- Helps a woman prevent expensive unnecessary diagnostic tests.
- Empowers a woman to work as an educated partner with her physician.
- Solving the Mystery of Breast Pain
Judy C. KneeceSolving the Mystery of Breast Pain” is designed to provide proactive steps for self-management of breast pain:
- Details steps to identify causes of pain. Includes worksheets to help women and physicians assess causes of breast pain.
- Lists 410 prescription and over-the-counter medications that may cause breast changes and promote breast pain.
- Describes common herbal and weight-reducing products that may cause breast pain.
- Lists cost-free remedies that may reduce or stop breast pain.
- Empowers a woman to work as an educated partner with a physician in monitoring her breast health.
- Straight Talk About Breast Cancer From Diagnosis to Recovery A Guide for the Entire Family
Suzanne W. Braddock (Editor), Jane M. Kercher, John J. Edney, Melanie Morrissey Clark, M.D.Suzanne W. BraddockThis serves as an accessible and practical guide for answering the questions of women with breast cancer as well as a resource for easing the concerns of the spouse and family members of breast cancer patients. Drawing on the personal experiences of a breast cancer survivor and the professional expertise of medical professionals, this guide details the various treatment options for cancer patients, including lumpectomy and mastectomy surgeries, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy. Updated information and photographs on breast reconstruction, a complete list of resources, and an open discussion of hereditary and reoccurrence risks are included.. Consumer text details a doctor's personal battle with breast cancer. Contains informative information on breast examinations, regular mammograms, lumps, breast reconstruction, hereditary breast cancer, and what to expect from treatment from a physician's and victim's point of view. Detailed illustrations included.
- The Feisty Woman's Breast Cancer Book
Elaine RatnerBreaking down the taboos associated with breast cancer and its treatment, Ratner offers women hope that they can survive and come out whole. She also share 18 insights gleaned from her own experience with breast cancer. This book also includes facts about breast cancer & breast health, along with tips on how to deal with the diagnosis and ways to keep family & friends well informed.
- The First Look
Amelia Davis, Foreword by Nancy Snyderman, M.D.Grappling head-on with America's "hidden killer", The First Look presents direct statements from breast cancer survivors together with photographs of their post-surgery bodies. This powerful volume counters the fear of the unknown with concrete information on what breast cancer survival looks and feels like. Amelia Davis's bold photographs equip those facing surgery with real information on what to expect, on reconstructive options and on Lymphedema, a frequent result of mastectomy. This essential book also provides companions-in-arms for newcomers to the battle against cancer. A diverse portrait of renewal, regeneration, and most of all reality, The First Look presents mothers, grandmothers, wives, and daughters ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-six. Some have undergone reconstructive surgery or been fitted with prostheses; some have not. All have struggled with cancer's wide-ranging impact on their bodies, their relationships, and their daily lives.
- The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys through Cancer
Evelyne AccadThis is a rare multicultural perspective on disease, particularly cancer, in which the author takes on a journey through the medical establishments, cultural taboos, gender-tagged attitudes, and personal stories of different civilizations. It could also be defined as a quest on how human logic relates to illness. The writing itself blends the diary, personal letters, poems, and songs with excerpts from some of the foremost authorities in cancer research, producing an effect upon the reader akin to that which she experienced herself, as she moved back and forth between the emotional and physical shock of the cancer experience and the objective scientific data she uncovered.
- Understanding Breast Cancer
Peter A. Dervan, MDDense breasts are said to be more difficult to mammogram and therefore more likely to hide small tumors. Dervan (pathology, University Coll. Dublin) discusses every nucleus and nuance of breast cancer. This book is good for professional and medical case managers and breast health navigators, but for the woman diagnosed with breast cancer, this book may contain more detailed information than the patient would want to know.
The author answers questions on breast cancer for readers. He overviews the scope of the problem, then explains what is known about the causes of breast cancer, how it spreads, and how it looks under the pathologist's microscope. He gives information on mammograms and their role in prevention, and on genetics, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and improvements expected in the near and distant future.
