Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment: Medical Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need to Know (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801886848 ISBN 13: 9780801886843

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

Synopsis

A diagnosis of breast cancer can be overwhelming. The disease is frightening and the medical landscape confusing. In the wake of fear and confusion comes the need to make decisions about treatment. This book provides women with medically reliable and up-to-date information to help them with these decisions.

Within these pages is a team of private consultants―including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologists, plastic surgeons, and women who have faced breast cancer―each of whom offers sound advice and valuable insight. In addition to describing surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and breast reconstruction, the medical experts clarify choices and offer support, while breast cancer survivors tell their own stories of pain, perseverance, and triumph.

Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment is a rare blend of medical expertise and compelling personal accounts that empowers those with breast cancer to meet the disease with confidence, knowledge, and hope.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth D. Miller, M.D., a practicing medical oncologist, is an assistant professor of medicine and oncology at the Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine. He serves as the director of the Connecticut Challenge Survivorship Clinic and of the Supportive Care Program at Yale Cancer Center.

Review:

"An indispensable resource for any breast cancer patient or a patient's friends and family."

(Olivia Boler Foreword)

"Miller's approach provides the reader with the sense that she's had a private and unhurried consultation with each specialist: medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and surgeons... This collection will help to fortify women making tough choices, offering invaluable information along with hope."

(Publishers Weekly)

"There is a great deal of very detailed information in this book."

(Sheila Thomas Consumer Connection)

"More than a standard reference guide... this book arms readers with knowledge, confidence, and hope as they begin their journey from sickness to health."

(American Journal for Nurse Practitioners)

"This step-by-step guide offers newly diagnosed patients a path through the complex and often overwhelming array of information and decisions... helpful charts and illustrations accompany clearly presented medical information, all conveyed in an inclusive, supportive tone."

(Jody Rosen Knower MAMM)

"This is a useful book for patients and their families as it provides a good description of treatment options as well as tips from breast cancer survivors."

(Heidi H Richardson, MD Doody's Review Service)

"Appropriate for all women, their family members and friends, physicians, and other care providers."

(Choice)

"Highly recommended to every woman... and for community library health shelves in general."

(Midwest Book Review)

"This fine book achieves the goal of providing clear and relevant medical information and guidance from specialists in order to help patients make treatment decisions. In addition, through the narratives of both patients and physicians, it will likely provide inspiration and hope to women who are confronting the challenge of breast cancer."

(Christina I. Herold, M.D. Informa Healthcare)

"Finally―one-stop reading for any woman facing breast cancer."

(Health for Women)

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0801886848
• ISBN 13: 9780801886843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Miller MD Kenneth D.