Breast Cancer

Breast Health and Anatomy
Bosom Buddies: Lessons and Laughter on Breast Health and Cancer
by Rosie O'Donnell, Deborah Axelrod, M.D., F.A.C.S., Tracy Chutorian Semler
A normal, healthy breast comes in many different shapes, sizes, and colors. In fact, I'm not a big fan of the word normal, as there is such great variability in what's normal, as well as what's healthy. Normal for you may be quite different from what it

Cancer
The Sexy Years: Discover the Hormone Connection: The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health, and Vitality, for Women and Men
by Suzanne Somers
The last words I ever thought I'd hear about myself were 'You have breast cancer.' It was as though someone had dropped a load of lead on my head. I felt stunned. This is something that happens to other people, I thought. Not me.

Woman-to-Woman Guide
Breast Cancer, There and Back
by Jami Bernard
A Woman-to-Woman Guide. You or someone you love is facing one of the greatest challenges life can hand you. But Jami Bernard lets you in on a secret: You can do it. A breast cancer veteran herself, Jami shows you how chemotherapy and radiation

The History and Politics of the Breast Cancer Industry
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer : How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life
by John R. Lee, M.D., Virginia Hopkins, David Zava, Ph.D.
Since 1950, breast cancer incidence has risen by 60 percent - and each year over 40,000 American women die from it. Conventional treatment protocols are simply not working and - worse - they may even be harmful. But women do have prevention and treatment

Introduction
The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet : The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life
by Robert Arnot, M.D.
For decades, breast cancer has stood alone among major diseases, because its victims lacked even a single practical preventive measure with which to protect themselves. In most epidemics, we've had the power to defend ourselves: vaccines for the flu

My Personal Journey
After Breast Cancer: A Common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment
by Hester Hill Schnipper, LICSW
As hard as it is to remember, there was a before. I had lived for forty-four years and thought of myself as having been lucky. I had been a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a lover, and a friend.

Unwelcome to the World of Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) during Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond
by Marc Silver
What to do in those frantic early days. When the news came, I was a husband behaving badly. It was the last Friday of August 2001. The phone in my office rang around 11:00 a.m. My wife's voice, shrouded by cell-phone static, sounded raw and uneasy.

From Suspicion to Diagnosis
Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide
by Yashar Hirshaut, M.D., FACP, Peter I. Pressman, M.D., FACS
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.

How and When To Be Your Own Doctor
by Dr. Isabelle A. Mose, Steve Solomon
These physical therapies were accompanied by counseling sessions dealing with some severe and long-unresolved problems, response patterns and relationships that triggered her present illness.

Foreword
Breast Cancer
by Mary Tagliaferri, M.D., L.Ac., Isaac Cohen, M.D., Debu Tripathy, M.D.
Anyone who is faced with a life-threatening illness such as breast cancer has a natural tendency to want to get as much information and to do everything possible to get better.

Paget's Disease of the Nipple
by National Cancer Institute
Paget's disease of the nipple is an uncommon type of cancer that forms in or around the nipple. Paget's disease of the nipple is almost always associated with an underlying breast cancer.

Before You Begin
Thriving After Breast Cancer: Essential Healing Exercises for Body and Mind
by Sherry Lebed Davis, Stephanie Gunning
The months following breast cancer treatment can bring a difficult combination of emotional and physical challenges, including a decreased range of motion, pain, fatigue, and depression.

Breast Cancer Surgery
by National Cancer Institute
Surgery has an important role in the treatment of patients with breast cancer. Most women can choose between breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy with radiation therapy) or removal of the breast (mastectomy).

Breast Cancer: Complacency the Enemy of Cure
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Since the early 1970's, the incidence of breast cancer has risen about 1 percent a year. Despite unprecedented openness about the disease, along with strides in diagnosis and treatment, complacency remains a stumbling block to cure.

Stages of Breast Cancer
by National Cancer Institute
After breast cancer has been diagnosed, tests are done to find out if cancer cells have spread within the breast or to other parts of the body. The process used to find out whether the cancer has spread within the breast or to other parts of the body

Herceptin (Trastuzumab)
by National Cancer Institute
What is Herceptin? How does it work? Herceptin (trastuzumab) is a monoclonal antibody. It belongs to a group of drugs made in the laboratory that are designed to attack specific cancer cells.

Breast Cancer and Pregnancy
by National Cancer Institute
Breast cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the breast. Breast cancer is sometimes detected (found) in women who are pregnant or have just given birth.

Discovering Breast Cancer
Her-2, The Making of Herceptin: a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer
by Robert Bazell
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.

Breast Cancer Early Stage
by Women's Health Information Center
A tumor is an abnormal growth that can be benign or malignant. Benign breast tumors do not threaten life and do not spread to other parts of the body. Malignant breast tumors are cancers that may threaten life and may spread to other parts of the body.

Understanding Breast Changes: A Health Guide for All Women
by National Cancer Institute
Breast changes occur in almost all women. Most of these changes are not cancer. However, some breast changes may be signs of cancer. Breast changes that are not cancer are called benign.