Breast Cancer Treatment
Posted on May 26, 2008
Breast Cancer Treatment
Understanding Lumpectomy: A Treatment Guide for Breast Cancer
Approximately 44% of women with breast cancer treat it with a lumpectomy and radiation therapy. The medical advice in this resource answers many of the questions these women and their families face in treatment choices. Topics include how a lumpectomy is performed, what to expect from radiation treatment, and where to find the emotional support needed during this time. Recovery plans that include exercise, nutrition, and ongoing treatment are provided.
Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) During Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond
This unique guide, like none other on the market, is packed with medical information, practical tips, psychological insight, and coping strategies to help men help the women they love through this trying time.
Living Beyond Breast Cancer: A Survivor’s Guide for When Treatment Ends and the Rest of Your Life Begins
How can I know if I’m really cured? Will anyone ever be attracted to me again? Will I ever get to enjoy sex again? It is safe for me to get pregnant? How do I live well beyond menopause without estrogen replacement therapy? What do I tell my boss? My daughter wants to know if she’s going to get breast cancer too. What should I tell her? If you are one of the 2.6 million women in the U.S. living beyond breast cancer, these may be some of the questions troubling you. You’ve been through diagnosis and treatment; now you’re ready to move from I have breast cancer back to I am leading a normal life. Living Beyond Breast Cancer will help you understand and manage the tough issues you face as you go on beyond treatment, and well into the future. You’ll learn how to become as healthy as possible for as long as possible by eating right, managing your weight, and finding an exercise program that works with your lifestyle. You’ll find out what to do if you’ve got to stop taking hormones or want to start. You may also need advice on achieving intimacy and having a baby. You’ll also find invaluable guidance on growing older and navigating troubling symptoms of menopause, particularly when they’re brought on by chemotherapy or tamoxifen or by stopping hormone replacement therapy. A normal life includes dealing with job and health care issues and wills. So you’ll find in-depth information on these subjects too. You’re a survivor, and you’ve got a future. This empathetic book, filled with comprehensive medical information, practical advice, and the voices of survivors who have lived through everything you’re going through, will help you celebrate yoursecond chance at living beyond breast cancer.
Breast Cancer: The Facts You Need to Know to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond
A blueprint to empower women to take a proactive part in their treatment and healing from breast cancer. The book covers all aspects, medical and emotional, from diagnosis through treatment, to follow-up care and recurrence.
Her-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer
Two years after she underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy, Barbara Bradfield’s aggressive breast cancer had recurred and spread to her lungs. The outlook was grim. Then she took part in Genentech’s clinical trials for a new drug. Five years later she remains cancer-free. Her-2 is the biography of Herceptin, the drug that provoked dramatic responses in Barbara Bradfield and other women in the trials and that offers promise for hundreds of thousands of breast cancer patients. Unlike chemotherapy or radiation, Herceptin has no disabling side effects. It works by inactivating Her-2/neu–a protein that makes cancer cells grow especially quickly– produced by a gene found in 25 to 30 percent of all breast tumors. Herceptin caused some patients’ cancers to disappear completely; in others, it slowed the progression of the disease and gave the women months or years they wouldn’t otherwise have had. Herceptin is the first treatment targeted at a gene defect that gives rise to cancer. It marks the beginning of a new era of treatment for all kinds of cancers. Robert Bazell presents a riveting account of how Herceptin was born. Her-2 is a story of dramatic discoveries and strong personalities, showing the combination of scientific investigation, money, politics, ego, corporate decisions, patient activism, and luck involved in moving this groundbreaking drug from the lab to a patient’s bedside. Bazell’s deft portraits introduce us to the remarkable people instrumental in Herceptin’s history, including Dr. Dennis Slamon, the driven UCLA oncologist who played the primary role in developing the treatment; Lily Tartikoff, wife of television executive Brandon Tartikoff, who tapped intoHollywood money and glamour to help fund Slamon’s research; and Marti Nelson, who inspired the activists who lobbied for a compassionate use program that would allow women outside the clinical trials to have access to the limited supplies of Herceptin prior to FDA approval of the drug. And throughout there are the stories of the heroic women with advanced breast cancer who volunteered for the trials, risking what time they had left on an unproven treatment. Meticulously researched, written with clarity and compassion, Her-2 is masterly reporting on cutting-edge science. From the Hardcover edition.
Be a Survivor: Your Guide to Breast Cancer Treatment
Be a Survivor is a phenomenally successful breast cancer resource that has empowered thousands of women — and their families — all the way through diagnosis, treatment and recovery. This book is unique in that it is very visual, with 150 color photos and graphics to convey complex concepts. Developed in consultation with 28 medical experts, it also features: candid testimonials by survivors straightforward, easy-to-understand language objective, accurate and up-to-date full information paced at a need-to-know basis Just as the disease is tackled in stages, so are the chapters in this wonderfully visual book. It should be the first book women reach for in developing strategies to fight the biggest battle of their lives.
After Breast Cancer: A Common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment
This commonsense guide to life after treatment for breast cancer shows how to navigate the rocky road back to health after surgery or chemotherapy, with advice on managing pain and fatigue, handling relationships, regaining emotional and sexual intimacy, and more.
Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment: Medical Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need to Know
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.
Breast Cancer: What You Should Know (But May Not Be Told) about Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment
This book is a fine resource for every doctor, patient, and family who has to confront the reality of breast cancer. –Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., Author of Love, Medicine, and MiraclesAttitudes about breast cancer diagnosis are changing, and women and their families are becoming more assertive about managing their disease. They know that more choices are available now than ever before, and they are willing to make them. This book encourages you to take control. Cathy Hitchcock and Steve Austin, N.D., have written a book for women who are ready to actively participate in their diagnosis and treatment. A husband and wife team, Hitchcock and Austin walk you step-by-step through each part of diagnosis, treatment (both conventional and alternative), and prevention (including prevention of a recurrence). With the help of a flow chart, they examine different diagnosis options. They also suggest questions to ask your doctor and offer checklists, summaries, and overviews. Interwoven with all this information, Cathy shares her personal story as a breast cancer survivor. She describes her ordeal upon discovering the lump and the transitions she has gone through to live with the diagnosis in a life-affirming way. Unlike many other breast cancer patients, Cathy didn’t simply accept the choices offered by medical doctors. Instead, with the help of her husband, she studied the research and made her own decisions about conventional and alternative treatments.
The Intelligent Patient Guide to Breast Cancer, Fourth Edition: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment
This best-selling self-help book for cancer patients and their families, by five practising physicians and professors of medicine, is the definitive authority on all aspects of breast cancer. It equips patients with the knowledge needed to take an active part in their treatment. Patients involved in making decisions about their treatment are better able to deal with their illness than are patients who relegate control to their doctors. Topics covered in the book include what cancer is, all about mammograms, breast self-examination technique, risk, what to do if a lump is found, benefits and side effects of all treatments, chemotherapy and radiation, what type of surgery is best, coping with cancer, reconstructive surgery and physiotherapy, handling the emotional side, diet and vitamins, what herceptin is and how it should be used, the new concept of partial breast radiotherapy, what a sentinel node biopsy is, and practical tips on living with cancer.
Joy Is a Plum Colored Acrobat: 45 Life-Affirming Visualizations for Breast Cancer Treatment and Aftercare
A few years ago, Wendy Burton was diagnosed with breast cancer. Shortly after her diagnosis, she happened upon some extremely positive and life-saving guidance from a tape of visualizations that led her down a whole new creative path. Her imaginings of tiny Cirque du Soleil acrobats leaping lightly through her breast ducts, with brightly colored beach umbrellas protecting her good cells as little chimney sweeps scurried through and swept away all of the cancerous cells, were so helpful for her throughout the process that she had to write them down and began sharing them with friends who were struggling with their own diagnoses. After months of searching, Wendy found an extraordinary artist in Italy whose work is vivid, lively, and just surreal enough to perfectly complement Wendy’s visualizations. The result is Joy Is a Plum Colored Acrobat, the first breast cancer companion that is so uplifting and so lovely, it is a dream come true for all women diagnosed with breast cancer, and for those who love them and want to give them a beautiful package of hope. In forty-five beautifully crafted visualizations, Wendy Burton transforms the feelings of fear and powerlessness that accompany a diagnosis of breast cancer into a delightful and nourishing journey of the imagination. Positive and practical, with vibrant four-color illustrations throughout, Joy Is a Plum Colored Acrobat is an inspiring, helpful, and nonintrusive gift for women about to undergo treatment, and an indispensable guide for the journey.
Talking about Treatment: Recommendations for Breast Cancer Adjuvant Treatment
Clear and accessible, this book is the first qualitative analysis of the complex conversations that occur between breast cancer patients and their oncologists. Roberts focuses on discussions about possible avenues of treatment, and shows them to be an active and mutual collaboration ofinformation on the one hand, and a subtle delineation of the roles of expert and novice on the other. Her work highlights how doctors achieve a delicate balance between promoting one particular treatment option while not guaranteeing a cure.
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