The complete guide to breast cancer - how to feel empowered and take control

Greenhalgh, Trisha

The complete guide to breast cancer - how to feel empowered and take control - London : Vermilion, 2018

Joining the cancer club; Breast cancer - an overview; Learning more; Coping emotionally with cancer; Sharing the news; The science of breast cancer treatment; Breast and armpit surgery; Breast reconstruction; Having and operation; Chemotherapy; Herceptin and other targeted therapies; Radiotherapy; Hormone therapy and ovarian suppression; Where to get support; Coping with changes to your body; Treatment-induced menopause and infertility; Relationships and sex; Staying healthy during and after treatment; Breast cancer during pregnancy; Breast cancer in men; Breast cancer in LGBT+ people; Breast cancer in older people; Secondary (metastatic) breast cancer; Moving forward

The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer brings together all the knowledge they have gathered as patients and as doctors to give you and your family a trusted, thorough and up-to-date source of information. Designed to empower you during your breast cancer treatment, it covers: -Simple explanations of every breast cancer treatment -Coping with the emotional burden of breast cancer -Frank advice about sex and relationships -Staying healthy during and after treatment -Dealing with the fear of recurrence -Living with secondary breast cancer Packed full of all the things the authors wished they’d known when they were diagnosed, and tips on how to cope with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and beyond, this is the only book you need to read to guide you through your breast cancer diagnosis."

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Breast Cancer
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