What Women Need To Know About Breast Self-Examination - Softcover

Berger, Karen; Bostwick III MD, John

9780942219999: What Women Need To Know About Breast Self-Examination

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ISBN 10: 0942219996 ISBN 13: 9780942219999

Publisher: CRC Press, 1994

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Breast self-examination can save a woman’s life. Many women fear finding a breast lump and therefore avoid checking their breasts; this neglect can prove to be dangerous. It may allow cancer to go undetected and spread outside the local breast tissue, thus lessening a woman’s chance of cure and long-term survival. Periodic breast examinations are important to the early detection of breast cancer, which ranks second to lung cancer as the most frequent cause of cancer death in women.

Excerpted from A Woman’s Decision, this booklet is a reliable source of information on breast self-examination that has been reprinted in Cosmopolitan magazine. It is popular with doctors and patients alike because of its clear, yet detailed instructions on this vital health examination.

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About the Author

Karen Berger, co-author of A Woman's decision: Breast Care, Treatment and reconstruction, is a respected medical writer and publisher who has spent the last 15 years interviewing and surveying women with breast cancer and has lectured widely on women's health, breast cancer, doctor-patient communications and breast reconstruction issues.

Karen is a speaker for the American Cancer Society and has worked extensively with breast cancer support groups throughout th country. She has testified as an expert witness before the FDA, been interviewed on Oprah Winfrey, The MacNeil Leher Report and CNN and has received national coverage in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, The St Louis Post Dispatch and U.S. News and World Report. This is the only lay person ever to address the American College of Surgerons at their annual congress.

John Bostwick, III, M.D., the world's foremost authority and experts on breast surgery and breast reconstruction. Dr. Bostwick is Chairman and Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, one of the leading departments of Plastic Surgery in the world.

Dr Bostwick has lectured extensively on breast cancer, breast surgery and breast reconstruction and has written over 100 scientific articles and several acclaimed texts on Breast Surgery and Reconstruction.

Review

"This book is a resource, a must read not only by women but also by men." -- AORN, July 2000, Brenda Gregory Dawes, Editor

"This booklet extracted from a longer publication, helps provide the how-to on a technique that can literally save thousands." -- British Journal of Plastic Surgery, Vol.47, Number 7 C.Ward BSc MA FRCS, Surrey

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