The complete guide to breast cancer : how to feel empowered and take control / Trisha Greenhalgh, Liz O'Riordan.

  • Greenhalgh, Trisha
Date:
[2018]
  • Books

About this work

Description

"The book you can trust to answer all your questions and support you at every stage. Professor Trisha Greenhalgh and Dr Liz O'Riorden are themselves breast cancer survivors and between them they have had every kind of treatment for primary breast cancer. They are also outstanding doctors, with Trisha Greenhalgh being the author of the world's bestselling evidence-based medicine book and Liz O'Riorden a breast cancer surgeon. 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 current source of information. Designed to make you an expert patient, it goes right through from diagnosis and treatment to life after breast cancer and managing the fear of recurrence. Packed full of all the things the authors wished they'd known when they were diagnosed, this is the only book you will ever need to read on breast cancer."--From publisher.

Publication/Creation

London : Vermilion, [2018]

Physical description

vii, 295 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

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 an 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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WP870 2018G81c
    Open shelves

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Identifiers

ISBN

  • 1785041878
  • 9781785041877