Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide - Hardcover

Hirshaut, Yashar; Pressman, Peter I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553089609 ISBN 13: 9780553089608

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1992

Synopsis

This ground-breaking volume is the one indispensable handbook women need as they join with their doctors in their fight against breast cancer. Such dramatic progress has been made in the treatment of the disease that this diagnosis is no longer cause for despair. Breast cancer is now being treated with far more success than was the case only a few years ago and without the devastation of women's lives that used to be the norm.
Today's better understanding of breast cancer is accompanied by many more choices about surgical treatment and follow-up therapy. If women are to be active participants in these often complex treatment decisions, they must have the most accurate information currently available and help in sorting out the frequently confusing news reports they encounter almost weekly. This comprehensive guide by two noted specialists provides the kind of explicit content women need in order to collaborate in informed decisions about the care that is right for them.
Richly supplemented with the personal experiences of women who have survived breast cancer, this book covers virtually every concern and question women facing breast cancer might have and is a powerful weapon in their battle against the disease.

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Review

"It should be required reading for everyone who is touched by the disease, whether personally or through a family member, friend, colleague, employee, or a patient diagnosed with breast cancer.... I can't recommend it enough."-- Today's OR Nurse

"These experts demystify breast cancer in understandable and compassionate terms.... Should help hundreds of thousands of women."-- James F. Holland, M.D. Chairman, Department of Neoplastic Diseases, Mount Sinai Medical Center

"Both timely and current -- [It] discusses the most common cancer in women in a precise, clear, and positive way, providing essential information in a warm, supportive fashion in a readable and understandable format."-- Journal of the National Cancer Institute

"Comprehensive, up-to-date, and highly detailed ... From selecting the best doctors to describing procedures and treatments, the authors answer all possible questions in a calm, rational manner.... Highly recommended."-- Library Journal

"Every woman is touched by the reality of breast cancer -- by the fear of it or the fact of it.... Drs. Pressman and Hirshaut have written the essential guide, one that should be required reading for every woman."-- Barbara Gordon author of I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

"This is a humane, compassionate book which nonetheless manages to be straightforward and comprehensive; the authors have succeeded in addressing the many questions (and the fears) of breast cancer patients, and have done a thorough and sensitive job."-- Share

About the Author

Peter Pressman, MD, FACS, is a surgical oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer. After 35 years of private practice in New York, he is now Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He has been a member of the Board of Directors and the Breast Cancer Detection and Treatment Subcommittee of the American Cancer Society, and is currently attenting surgeon at New York Presbyterian, Beth Israel, and Lenox Hill Hospitals.

Yashar Hirshaut, MD, FACP, is a medical oncologist and also specializes in breast cancer. In addition to his private practive in New York, he is an attenting physician at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Beth Israel, and Lenox Hill Hospital and is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Cornell University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0553089609
• ISBN 13: 9780553089608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English