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Assess Your True Risk of Breast Cancer

Author : Patricia Kelly
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780805064681
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Assess Your True Risk of Breast Cancer written by Patricia Kelly and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-10-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to give women the tools they need to realistically assess their risk of getting breast cancer--and choose the best course of action Ask women what their number-one health fear is and most will not hesitate before answering "breast cancer." The recent proliferation of easily misunderstood and often contradictory statistics about breast cancer and its causes, however, is scaring many women who have only a small risk of contracting the disease. Assess Your True Risk of Breast Cancer is designed to help women evaluate what their risk really is and then determine what the next step should be based on that risk. Written by a leading expert in the field, the book discusses everything from studies on how age and family history relate to breast cancer risk, to those on hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer, enabling a woman to understand and focus on her own personal situation. Whether providing advice on how to get more extensive testing, counseling, and preventative measures when necessary, or offering the welcome assurance that the risk is small enough to warrant just annual checkups, mammograms, and regular self-examinations, Assess Your True Risk of Breast Cancer replaces rumors and scare tactics with solid, practical, and vital information.

Breasts: The Owner's Manual

Author : Kristi Funk
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785218823
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Breasts: The Owner's Manual written by Kristi Funk and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national bestseller! Breast cancer surgeon Dr. Kristi Funk offers a comprehensive and encouraging approach to breast care and breast cancer. Empower yourself with facts and strategies to understand your breasts, reduce your cancer risk, and open your eyes to interventions and treatments. Most women don’t want to hear about breast cancer unless they have it and need to make some decisions, but these days news about breast cancer—the number one killer of women ages twenty to fifty-nine—is everywhere. Chances are you know someone who has had it. But did you know that choices you make every day bring you closer to breast cancer—or move you farther away? That there are ways to reduce your risk factors? And that many of the things you’ve heard regarding the causes of breast cancer are flat-out false? Based on Dr. Kristi Funk’s experience as a board-certified breast cancer surgeon, she knows for a fact that women have the power to reduce breast cancer risk in dramatic ways. Many women believe that family history and genetics determine who gets breast cancer, but that’s not true for most people. In fact, 87 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single first-degree relative with breast cancer. This book will help you: Learn the breast-health basics that every woman should know Reduce your cancer risk and recurrence risk based on food choices and healthy lifestyle changes backed by rigorous scientific research Understand the controllable and uncontrollable risk factors for breast cancer Outline your medical choices if you're at elevated risk for or are already navigating life with breast cancer There have been few solid guidelines on how to improve your breast health, lower your risk of getting cancer, and make informed medical choices after treatment—until now. With her book available in 10 languages and in more than 30 countries, Dr. Funk is passionate about her mission of educating as many women as possible about what they can do to stop breast cancer before it starts. Praise for Breasts: The Owner’s Manual: “Dr. Funk writes Breasts: The Owner’s Manual just like she talks: with conviction, passion, and a laser focus on you.”—Dr. Mehmet Oz, Host of The Dr. Oz Show “Breasts: The Owner’s Manual will become an indispensable and valued guide for women looking to optimize health and minimize breast illness.”—Debu Tripathy, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center “Breasts: The Owner’s Manual not only provides a clear path to breast health, but a road that leads straight to your healthiest self. As someone who has faced breast cancer, I suggest you follow it.”—Robin Roberts, Co-anchor, Good Morning America

The Truth about Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

Author : Alan B. Hollingsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881001150
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Breast Cancer Risk Assessment written by Alan B. Hollingsworth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why this book? Previous books have covered risk factors, but' now you can learn how these risks are assembled into a personal profile, and: Learn why the most popular model for risk assessment can often be the most misleading. Realize that women without known risk factors are still at a significant risk for developing breast cancer. Understand how important your personal risk profile becomes when you begin to make other health care decisions. Appreciate how media-reported studies of risk factors frequently become distorted. Discover that there are protective factors that can offset risk factors, as well as the option of chemoprevention. And, gaze into the crystal ball and realize visualize the future of risk assessment.

Understanding Breast Cancer Risk

Author : Patricia T. Kelly
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877228134
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Breast Cancer Risk written by Patricia T. Kelly and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The threat of breast cancer concerns all women. Those who rely on media reports of various risk factors find they often contain information that is confusing, contradictory, incomplete, and not relevant to individual risk. Patricia T. Kelly, a medical geneticist who specializes in breast cancer risk assessment and counseling, has brought together materials from the fields of genetics, medicine, epidemiology, sociology, and counseling to provide a guide to breast cancer risk analysis that is accessible to both health care providers and patients. By addressing the social as well as the scientific aspects of breast cancer risk, this book helps health care professionals to better guide and inform their patients. Understanding Breast Cancer presents the most up to date information about genetic and environmental factors that are either known or believed to influence the risk of breast cancer. Kelly discusses: how to interpret and clarify study results and statistics women's personal fears and beliefs the importance of understanding how each patient defines the disease special concerns of those who have a family history of cancer, benign breast disease, or questions about hormones the active role women should take in devising their own breast health program useful strategies and methods of effective communication to help patients put their risk into perspective and achieve appropriate breast health care This concise, clearly written book enables health care professionals to assess factors that contribute to breast cancer risk; to alleviate fears; to dispel myths about risk factors such as age, family history, diet, stress, and personality; and to help patients achieve an individual and comprehensive view of personal risk and appropriate breast health care. Author note: Patricia T. Kelly, Ph.D. is a medical geneticist who has specialized in providing Cancer Risk Analysis in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than ten years. She is the director of the Cancer Risk Analysis service at Children's Hospital of San Francisco and the author of Dealing with Dilemma: A Manual for Genetic Counselors.

Reducing Breast Cancer Risk in Women

Author : B.A. Stoll
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401104891
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Reducing Breast Cancer Risk in Women written by B.A. Stoll and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast cancer is not only a burning public issue, but very soon we shall see genetic testing for a woman's predisposition to breast cancer. Many women will be demanding to know their degree of risk and will need counselling to cope with that information. This book is particularly aimed at primary health care professionals, including physicians, medical assistants, nurses and counsellors, who daily deal with questions from women concerned about their risk of developing breast cancer. To answer such questions, this book has combined a guide to identifying women at higher risk to breast cancer, with a balanced review of approaches which aim to reduce that risk. The book provides practical general measures which may reduce risk for women at average risk. For women at clearly increased risk various protective options with different levels of efficacy and acceptability are discussed. Central to the book is the patient-centered view. We need to face reality that it still will take many years before the current clinical trials of preventive measures provide meaningful results. Meanwhile, women who seek to diminish their risk of breast cancer need all the available information. They must be given full responsibility to make an informed decision on their own health care. Reducing Breast Cancer Risk in Women is a practical handbook, technicalities have been deliberately kept to a minimum, making it concise and easy to read.

Breast Cancer

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer written by and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Breast Cancer: Real Questions, Real Answers

Author : David Chan
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0786737441
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer: Real Questions, Real Answers written by David Chan and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast Cancer: Real Questions, Real Answers is an outgrowth of Dr. David Chan's more than 20 years in private oncology practice. Inspired by his patients—who courageously face their illness but often feel fearful, confused about their options, and full of questions—Dr. Chan's book is uniquely structured as a Question and Answer between patient and doctor. It provides readers with an easily navigated, completely current resource for all of their queries. Poised to become the new must-read for breast cancer patients, this book offers easily digestible information by reviewing and exploring the causes of breast cancer, outlining the core basics of breast cancer therapy, explaining how breast cancer survival is influenced by lifestyle, and much more. Dr. Chan's surefooted, compassionate tone offers reassurance throughout, as do the stories of his many patients, which give readers a firsthand glimpse at what they may face down the road, all from a survivor's point of view. Complete with a glossary of important terms and an appendix of useful resources, Breast Cancer: Real Questions, Real Answers is a must for every breast cancer patient seeking information that will guide her through her struggle toward a triumphant recovery.

Assessing Your Risk for Breast Cancer

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Assessing Your Risk for Breast Cancer written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Breast Cancer

Author : Wendell Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781634852159
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer written by Wendell Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

You are Not Alone

Author : Andrea Schneider
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 145203821X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book You are Not Alone written by Andrea Schneider and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are Not Alone: Life After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis, empowers women with easy to understand, vital information to guide them through their breast cancer experience. It helps women become aware of their options while giving them the confidence, hope, inspiration, and skills to make the right treatment decisions. Along with valuable research, Andrea candidly shares her personal experiences, including her thoughts and feelings, from the time of her breast cancer diagnosis to having her breasts removed and reconstructed. This book will save you countless hours of research while offering you information relatively unknown by most women. Discussions include: . Factors which may contribute to breast cancer. . Tests such as HALO-NAF and the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutation test. . Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). . What it means to have breasts sensitive to estrogen. . Statistics you must know if you are diagnosed with breast cancer during or soon after pregnancy. . Treatment options and pointers on how to make the right treatment choice. . Questions to ask your doctor. (If you don't ask the right question, you won't get the right answer.) You are Not Alone: Life After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis can benefit all women as it shares what our doctors aren't telling us yet we must know to make critical decisions. Our lives are at stake."

Handbook of Breast Cancer Risk-assessment

Author : Victor G. Vogel
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763718602
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Breast Cancer Risk-assessment written by Victor G. Vogel and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Essential Book Provides On-The-Spot Clinical Guidelines For Assessing And Advising Patients On Their Risk Of Breast Cancer, Therapeutic Options, And Other Issues Of Critical Importance To Women Concerned About Their Breast Health. In Highly-Condensed, Outline Format, The Handbook Provides Extensive, Authoritative, And Current Recommendations On Such Critical Issues As Hormone Replacement Therapy, Chemoprevention, Lifestyle Factors, Genetic Counseling, Imaging Of High-Risk Patients, Economic Factors, And Much More.

The Breast Cancer Book

Author : Kenneth D. Miller
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421441926
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Breast Cancer Book written by Kenneth D. Miller and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, down-to-earth guide for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer. Being diagnosed with breast cancer can be scary and confusing. There are medical terms to learn, options to consider, and important decisions to make, all while trying to carry on with work, family, and life. The Breast Cancer Book can't reverse a diagnosis or make breast cancer disappear, but every page can inform and empower you or your loved ones, no matter where you are in the breast cancer experience. Written by three trusted experts—an oncologist, a breast surgeon, and a two-time breast cancer survivor—this multidisciplinary book walks you through everything you need to know about breast cancer so that you can make the best decisions about diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care. In plain, easy-to-understand language that illuminates all the facets of this disease, the authors draw on their professional experience and the most current scientific knowledge to • describe the risk factors for breast cancer; • explain the various tests used to detect cancer; • clarify the full range of treatment options, from surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation to newer combination therapies; • provide insight from experts in genetics, radiation oncology, and breast reconstruction; • present inspirational true stories of breast cancer survivors; and • simplify complex concepts with detailed graphics, tables, illustrations, and photographs. A crash course on breast cancer that will help get you or anyone you love through the physical and emotional challenges of the disease, The Breast Cancer Book will also help readers communicate with their cancer team. Packed with information, this compassionate guide is the most up-to-date book available.

Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Early Detection

Author : Edward R. Sauter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387875832
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Early Detection written by Edward R. Sauter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many comprehensive texts have been written on the treatment of breast cancer, the most common cancer among women, there are relatively few which cover in depth the prevention and early detection of the disease. The goal of this work is to present what experts in the ?eld feel is the current knowledge and future direction of breast cancer prevention and early detection. We begin Part I of the book with a review of risk factors, both genetic and environmental. We next review progress in the use of chemoprevention. Notably, chemoprevention risk reduction studies have led to FDA approval of two medications which measurably reduce disease incidence among women at increased risk, although with some risk of treatment related side effects. Newer agents in the pipeline, which may also reduce risk among normal risk women, are also discussed. Surgical risk reducing strategies complete the section on prevention, including both the bene?ts and downsides to this more aggressive approach. Even with aggressive prevention strategies, some women will develop breast cancer. For these women, early detection is critical to minimize disease spread and maximize long term survival. Part II of this book reviews current and upcoming approaches to early detection. Imaging strategies, including mammography, breast ultrasound, MRI, and PET imaging are reviewed. The potential for molecular tumor targeting to detect disease prior to the formation of a mass visible by anatomic imaging is presented.

Breast Cancer: The Facts

Author : Christobel M. Saunders
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192542397
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer: The Facts written by Christobel M. Saunders and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast Cancer: The Facts provides essential, easy to follow information on all aspects of the diagnosis and management of breast cancer. It provides essential background information on the disease, from the ways breast problems are investigated, through treatment options and new therapies, to follow-up processes after remission. Fully updated to cover new and emerging therapies in breast cancer, this second edition also features new chapters on treating special or unusual types of breast cancer; surviving and thriving post-treatment; and coping and support strategies for the partners, families, friends, and colleagues of the person diagnosed with breast cancer. Each chapter is enriched with resources such as websites, links to videos, and care plans so the reader can explore relevant topics in greater detail. Written by specialists in breast cancer, the focus is on the whole patient, their family, and social networks, to make this book a holistic guide to better health at and after diagnosis with the disease, equipping patients affected by breast cancer and their families to be able to ask their health care team the questions they need to have answered to make informed decisions about their treatment.

Breast Cancer and the Environment: Questions and Answers

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309311640
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer and the Environment: Questions and Answers written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout their lives, women have experiences and make decisions that can influence their chances of getting breast cancer. While we have little control over some of these risk factors, we can sometimes make choices - good or bad - that affect our risk of getting breast cancer. In a 2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, obesity, alcohol consumptions, and some medical treatments were found to raise these risks at least a little. For other factors, the evidence wasn\'t as clear. Look through this question and answer booklet to learn more.

Positive Results

Author : Joi L. Morris
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615927735
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Positive Results written by Joi L. Morris and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and important guidebook is a single, comprehensive source of information and advice to help women (and some men) at high risk for breast and for ovarian cancer because of family history and genetic profile. One part memoir, three parts "how to" manual, Positive Results explains in a clear and steady manner the myths and realities of "the breast cancer genes." It lays out all the options in easy-to-follow, compassionate language. It will help women and men decide if they want to pursue genetic testing, guide them in interpreting their test results, and give them a sound basis for making the life-saving decisions required to manage their risks. Authors Joi Morris and Dr. Ora Karp Gordon cover all of the latest medical options, including genetic testing for breast cancer risk, breast cancer surveillance, assessing risk, mastectomy and breast reconstruction techniques, ovarian cancer surveillance, surgery, managing menopause, and cancer risks in men who carry mutations on BRCA genes. Along the way, Joi tells her personal story and that of other women and men who have made the gut-wrenching decisions required to survive in this world of astronomical risk. At the age of forty-two, Joi learned that she has a genetic mutation on a gene known as BRCA2. The test results meant that her risk of getting breast cancer could be as high as 84 percent by age seventy, and that her risk for ovarian cancer was also high. Compounding her risk was the fact that her mother had developed breast cancer in her forties. After much research and consultation, the result of which is this book, Joi made the difficult decision of undergoing prophylactic mastectomies. This straightforward and practical approach combined with the poignant personal experience of a woman at risk facing these challenging decisions will provide readers with the feeling that they have had the benefit of a long conversation with both a trusted physician and a friend who has just gone through the same uncertainties they are facing.

Genetic Testing

Author : Neil F. Sharpe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471748889
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Genetic Testing written by Neil F. Sharpe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete review of the issues with specific recommendations and guidelines. With over 1,000 tests commercially available, genetic testing is revolutionizing medicine. Health care professionals diagnosing and treating patients today must consider genetic factors, the risks and limitations of genetic testing, and the relevant law. Genetic Testing: Care, Consent, and Liability offers the only complete, practical treatment of the genetic, clinical, ethical, and legal issue surrounding genetic testing. The authors present protocols, policies, and models of care that are currently in use, and explain the legal framework for genetic testing and counseling that has developed in North America, particularly with regard to the law of medical malpractice. This essential book features an international roster of esteemed contributors including, Nancy P. Callanan, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Carole H. Browner, H. Mabel Preloran, Riyana Babul-Hirji, Cheryl Shuman, M.J. Esplen, Maren T. Scheuner, Dena S. Davis, JonBeckwith, Lisa Geller, Mark A. Hall, Andrew R. MacRae, David Chitayat, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Stephanie Turnham, Mireille Lacroix, Jinger G, Hoop, Edwin H, Cook, Jr., S. H. Dinwiddie, Elliot S. Gershon, C. Anthony Rupar, Lynn Holt, Bruce R. Korf, Anne Summers, S. Annie Adams, Daniel L. Van Dyke, Rhett P. Ketterling, Erik C. Thorland, Timothy Caulfield, Lorraine Sheremeta, Richard Gold, Jon F. Merz, David Castle, Peter J. Bridge, JS Parboosingh, Patricia T. Kelly, Julianne M. O'Daniel, Allyn McConkie-Rosell, Beatrice Godard, Bartha Maria Knoppers, David Weisbrot. The coverage also includes: * Genetic screening, including prenatal, neonatal, carrier, and susceptibility testing * Diagnosis, risk assessment, confidentiality, and clinical/legal issues related to follow-up * Interpreting test results and communicating them to patients * psychological considerations * Informed consent * Family history evaluations * Referral to medical geneticists and genetic counselors Genetic Testing Care, Consent, and Liability is a must-have resource for clinical geneticists, genetic counselors, specialists, family physicians, nurses, public health professionals, and medical students.