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Concise and accessible, Breast Cancer: The Facts guides the newly-diagnosed breast cancer patient through what they can expect to encounter on their journey. Updated to include new treatment options, and more information for the patient's family and friends, this is an essential yet approachabl...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: |
The facts series
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| Summary: |
Concise and accessible, Breast Cancer: The Facts guides the newly-diagnosed breast cancer patient through what they can expect to encounter on their journey. Updated to include new treatment options, and more information for the patient's family and friends, this is an essential yet approachable guide. |
| Item Description: | "First edition published in 2009" |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 144 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198813040 019881304X |
| Index Number: | RC280 |
| CLC: | R737.9 |
| Call Number: | R737.9/S257/2nd ed. |
| Contents: | Who is at risk of breast cancer, when, and what you can do about it -- Healthy breasts -- How a breast problem is investigated -- What is breast cancer? -- Treating breast cancer -- Surgical treatments -- Radiotherapy -- Drug (systemic) therapy for early breast cancer -- Treating special types of breast cancer -- Surviving and thriving -- Follow-up -- Advanced (metastatic) and recurrent cancer -- For the partners, family, friends, and colleagues affected by breast cancer -- Special situations -- The future: what tests and treatments may be around the corner. |