Breast Cancer The Complete Guide by Yashar Hirshaut, Peter Pressman
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Book Description

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.

About the Author

Yashar Hirshaut, M.D., FACP

Yashar Hirshaut, M.D. is a medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer. He served as an attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering on the Clinical Immunology Service and an associate professor of medicine at the Cornell University Medical College. He was also head of the Laboratory for Immuno-diagnosis at Sloan-Kettering. In addition to being in private practice, he is currently associate clinical professor of medicine at Cornell University, adjunct professor of biology at Yeshiva University, and an attending physician at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Beth Israel and Lenox Hill Hospitals in New York City.

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Peter I. Pressman, M.D., FACS

Peter I. Pressman is a surgical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of breast cancer. A graduate of Columbia College and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he trained at Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia Division of Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Dr. Pressman has been in private practice in New York for over thirty-five years and is Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

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