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The History and Mystery of Breast Cancer

Author : Michael Baum
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527536750
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The History and Mystery of Breast Cancer written by Michael Baum and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast cancer and its treatment is a terribly complex problem that involves all the intricacies of the human body, the anatomical and microscopic anatomy of the breast, the endocrine system, and bone metabolism, as well as the nature of malignant transformation. Even experts still have uncertainties. However, there is now an ethical and legal obligation for specialists to share their uncertainties with their patients when we are looking for informed consent before invasive procedures. Obsessive ruminations about the threat of breast cancer mean that few in the lay public know that breast cancer has slipped out of the top seven causes of death for women. Treatments for breast cancer might increase the risk of death from cardio-vascular disease, whilst, on the other hand, denying women in this age group hormone replacement therapy for the unjustified fear of breast cancer can impair their quality of life, cognitive function and bone mineral density. The totality of women’s health and expectation of life must always trump the single-issue fanatics who only view women as the sum of their two breasts. This is more than a self-help book, but should also be considered as introducing the history and mystery of breast cancer, from the time of the Ancient Egyptians to the modern era, as well as hopes for the future.

A Concise History of Breast Cancer

Author : Marc Lacroix
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781626184619
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Breast Cancer written by Marc Lacroix and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer. It is estimated that breast cancer affects more than 1,000,000 women world-wide each year, and about 450,000 die from the disease. During the last decades, breast cancer has received considerable attention, yet it is a very old disease that was described years and years ago. This book provides a summary of breast cancer history. It covers the ages from the ancient times to the early 2000's, but mainly focuses on the 20th century and its numerous discoveries and inventions in the field of breast cancer detection, analysis and treatment.

Breast Cancer

Author : Fred Harding
Publisher : Tekline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0955422108
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer written by Fred Harding and published by Tekline Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of a prior work entitled "Breast Cancer Prevention and Cure," this text includes new chapters that--with several hundred references--show conclusively what causes the disease and how to prevent it.

The Cancer Chronicles

Author : George Johnson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385349718
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Cancer Chronicles written by George Johnson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative and intellectually vibrant exploration, he takes us on an adventure through the history and recent advances of cancer research that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the disease. Deftly excavating and illuminating decades of investigation and analysis, he reveals what we know and don’t know about cancer, showing why a cure remains such a slippery concept. We follow him as he combs through the realms of epidemiology, clinical trials, laboratory experiments, and scientific hypotheses—rooted in every discipline from evolutionary biology to game theory and physics. Cogently extracting fact from a towering canon of myth and hype, he describes tumors that evolve like alien creatures inside the body, paleo-oncologists who uncover petrified tumors clinging to the skeletons of dinosaurs and ancient human ancestors, and the surprising reversals in science’s comprehension of the causes of cancer, with the foods we eat and environmental toxins playing a lesser role. Perhaps most fascinating of all is how cancer borrows natural processes involved in the healing of a wound or the unfolding of a human embryo and turns them, jujitsu-like, against the body. Throughout his pursuit, Johnson clarifies the human experience of cancer with elegiac grace, bearing witness to the punishing gauntlet of consultations, surgeries, targeted therapies, and other treatments. He finds compassion, solace, and community among a vast network of patients and professionals committed to the fight and wrestles to comprehend the cruel randomness cancer metes out in his own family. For anyone whose life has been affected by cancer and has found themselves asking why?, this book provides a new understanding. In good company with the works of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Abraham Verghese, The Cancer Chronicles is endlessly surprising and as radiant in its prose as it is authoritative in its eye-opening science.

Radical

Author : Kate Pickert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316470346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Radical written by Kate Pickert and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.

Unnatural History

Author : Robert A. Aronowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521822491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Unnatural History written by Robert A. Aronowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the changing definitions and understandings of breast cancer.

Radical

Author : Kate Pickert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316470315
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Radical written by Kate Pickert and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.

A short history of breast cancer

Author : D. de Moulin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401706032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book A short history of breast cancer written by D. de Moulin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Breast Cancer Working Conference of the Breast Cancer Cooperative Group of the European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer, to be held in Amsterdam on April 27-29, 1983, was the principle motive for writing this book. It was feh that a short review of the main pathogenetic conceptions and therapeutic principles which have presented themselves with regard to mammary cancer in the Course of Western history , might help to draw a more complete picture of where we stand today. It is not easy to decide which ideas, although discarded, deserve yet to be remembered and which authors from the past may be considered to be truly representative of the scientific climate of their age. Twenty centuries have produced quite a lot of ideas and the number of medical authors who advanced, or rejected, or modified, or revived them, is really uncountable. So the historian has to make a selec tion and choices are perforce subjective and open to criticism. In writing this book I tried to consult original sources in the original language as much as possible. These sources were not always strictly medical since I aimed at placing the problem of malignant breast disease - which might serve as a paradigm of cancer in general - in a somewhat wider context. For the history of medicine is not only a history of ideas, but also that of people, of institutions, of society.

Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Marjo Kaartinen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317320298
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century written by Marjo Kaartinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century.

Bathsheba's Breast

Author : James S. Olson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880643
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Bathsheba's Breast written by James S. Olson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-02-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... An absorbing narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted the disease."--Back cover.

A Short History of Breast Cancer

Author : Daniël de Moulin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789024728145
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Breast Cancer written by Daniël de Moulin and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

False Hope

Author : Richard A. Rettig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199748242
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book False Hope written by Richard A. Rettig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1980s, a promising new treatment for breast cancer emerged: high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation or HDC/ABMT. By the 1990s, it had burst upon the oncology scene and disseminated rapidly before having been carefully evaluated. By the time published studies showed that the procedure was ineffective, more than 30,000 women had received the treatment, shortening their lives and adding to their suffering. This book tells of the rise and demise of HDC/ABMT for metastatic and early stage breast cancer, and fully explores the story's implications, which go well beyond the immediate procedure, and beyond breast cancer, to how we in the United States evaluate other medical procedures, especially life-saving ones. It details how the factors that drove clinical use--patient demand, physician enthusiasm, media reporting, litigation, economic exploitation, and legislative and administrative mandates--converged to propel the procedure forward despite a lack of proven clinical effectiveness. It also analyzes the limited effect of technology assessments before randomized clinical trials evaluated decisively the procedure and the ramifications of this system on healthcare today. Sections of the book consider the initial conditions surrounding the emergence of the new breast cancer treatment, the drivers of clinical use, and the struggle for evidence-based medicine. A concluding section considers the significance of the story for our healthcare system.

A Breast Cancer Alphabet

Author : Madhulika Sikka
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0385348525
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book A Breast Cancer Alphabet written by Madhulika Sikka and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive and approachable guide to life during, and after, breast cancer The biggest risk factor for breast cancer is simply being a woman. Madhulika Sikka's A Breast Cancer Alphabet offers a new way to live with and plan past the hardest diagnosis that most women will ever receive: a personal, practical, and deeply informative look at the road from diagnosis to treatment and beyond. What Madhulika Sikka didn't foresee when initially diagnosed, and what this book brings to life so vividly, are the unexpected and minute challenges that make navigating the world of breast cancer all the trickier. A Breast Cancer Alphabet is an inspired reaction to what started as a personal predicament. This A-Z guide to living with breast cancer goes where so many fear to tread: sex (S is for Sex - really?), sentimentality (J is for Journey - it's a cliché we need to dispense with), hair (H is for Hair - yes, you can make a federal case of it) and work (Q is for Quitting - there'll be days when you feel like it). She draws an easy-to-follow, and quite memorable, map of her travels from breast cancer neophyte to seasoned veteran. As a prominent news executive, Madhulika had access to the most cutting edge data on the disease's reach and impact. At the same time, she craved the community of frank talk and personal insight that we rely on in life's toughest moments. This wonderfully inventive book navigates the world of science and story, bringing readers into Madhulika's mind and experience in a way that demystifies breast cancer and offers new hope for those living with it.

Breast Cancer: a Hidden Cause and Silent Killer

Author : Eseoghene Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781976730016
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer: a Hidden Cause and Silent Killer written by Eseoghene Williams and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know that 80 to 85 percent of breast cancer cases happen in women with no family history of breast cancer disease? Do you know that the incidence of breast cancer disease rose sharply after 1973 when abortion was legalized? Do you also know that breast cancer was hardly ever heard of before the 1960's when doctors began giving women hormone therapy. What about the fact that the American Cancer Society says that cancer is 85 percent lifestyle caused? Now, haven considered the above are asking yourself why the upsurge in the incidence of breast cancer? Breast cancer is a dreaded malaise but unfortunately the more our women strive to avoid the condition the more the rate of incidence of the malaise increases. Frustrating, don't you think? Yes, indeed it is very frustrating. You will not begin to understand the gravity of the matter until you, firsthand, experience the suffering condition of a breast cancer victim. Imagine the relief and reassurance that countless unsuspecting, even innocent women will experience if only but they understood what needs to be understood about this malaise, if only they had the true information they needed to guide their lifestyle and so be able to navigate their course away from this malaise. But who will tell them, who will bell the cat. In this regard the media has failed our women folk starkly. Any woman with a true love for her life and health must seriously look elsewhere for that golden knowledge that has the capacity to set her heart at rest as it concerns the malaise of breast cancer. This work endeavoured to call upon the works of professional in the area of human health, from various sources, that dwell on the matter and analyze recent developments that engendered a sharp rise in the incidence of breast cancer with the view of unraveling this mystery. For every woman and man who has a wife or a daughter or a sister or a mother this work is a must-read. This work is an eloquent pronouncement on the most effective way by which our society can systematically move forward away from the scourge of breast cancer.

The Emperor of All Maladies

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439170916
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

Dressed to Kill, Second Edition

Author : Sydney Ross Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780757004629
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Dressed to Kill, Second Edition written by Sydney Ross Singer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated edition of: Dressed to kill: the link between breast cancer and bras. Avery Pub. Group, 1995.

A Darker Ribbon

Author : Ellen Leopold
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807065137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Darker Ribbon written by Ellen Leopold and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cultural history of breast cancer, this book examines the social attitudes and medical treatments that together defined the modern relationship between women with the disease and their doctors. At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the radical mastectomy, and the other between Rachel Carson, who was writing Silent Spring as she was battling breast cancer, and her personal physician George Crile, Jr.