Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide - Softcover

Hirshaut, Yashar; Pressman, Peter I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553382489 ISBN 13: 9780553382488

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 2004

Synopsis

This lucid step-by-step guide has established itself as the indispensable book women need to make informed decisions about the care that is right for them.

Breast cancer will strike one out of every eight women in the United States. From the moment the disease is suspected, women are called upon to make numerous choices under intense stress, and none of them should go it alone. The completely revised fourth edition of this invaluable handbook, long praised for helping women manage every stage of treatment and recovery, includes the many modifications and advances in the rapidly changing field of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

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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: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0553382489
• ISBN 13: 9780553382488
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 368