100 Questions and Answers about Breast Cancer

Whether you're a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. The only text to provide both the patient’s and doctor’s views, this completely updated second edition of this best-selling book gives you up-to-date, authoritative, practical answers to your questions about breast cancer, including risk factors and prevention, diagnosis and treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. Now including an entire new section on the impact of cancer on sexuality, intimacy and fertility, 100 Questions & Answers About Breast Cancer, Second Edition is written by a prominent breast cancer advocate and survivor and by a cancer surgeon.The book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.

Zora Brown is Special Assistant to the President's Office for Health and Minority Initiatives at Integris Health, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ms. Brown is founder and chairperson of Cancer Awareness Program Services (CAPS) and the Breast Cancer Resource Committee (BCRC) and founder of Rise, Sister, Rise, a breast cancer support group model for African American women. In 1996, she organized Men in Action Against Breast Cancer, a support arm of the Breast Cancer Resource Committee. In 2002 Ms. Brown, along with her nieces, founded SASSi™ (Sisters Accessing Skills for Survival and Intervention). Ms. Brown is an outspoken advocate for minority and women's health issues; presenting at both national and international forums. She appears regularly on the networks and CNN and other media as an expert on women's health.

Harold P. Freeman, MD is the Founder and Medical Director of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention. He is the past National President of the American Cancer Society and former Chairman of the USPresident's Cancer Panel. Dr Freeman pioneered the Patient Navigation program which is being adopted nationally to eliminate barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the poor and medicallyunderserved..

Elizabeth Platt is a medical and science writer/editor living and working in Maine. She learned about high-risk pregnancy first-hand when she had her first son, Nathaniel, at the age of 38, and had a refresher course with her second son, Eric, at the age of 40. Elizabeth previously coauthored 100 Questions & Answers About Breast Cancer with Zora Brown, now in its second edition, and is currently the Managing Editor of the women's health website womentowomen.com. In her spare time, she breeds Lippitt Morgan horses at her farm in Buxton, Maine, where she lives with her sons, their father, two teenage stepchildren, and assorted dogs, cats, and poultry.