Using the familiar image of a garden and a personal, plain English style to illustrate your cancer and how it affects your body, Professor Boyages, MD, PhD, walks you slowly through the stress and confusion after a diagnosis of breast cancer.
Learn how to:- Identify the 20 “Control Points”: the 20 important decisions you need to make before and after your surgery
- Navigate through the medical maze of breast cancer treatment with detailed descriptions and clear flowcharts that give you a “birds-eye view” of the process.
- Find and research the right treatment team for you
- Identify the key questions to ask your treatment team before and after treatment
- Identify the surgical choices for your breast and armpit
- Understand when you really need radiation therapy, chemotherapy or hormonal treatment
- Preserve your fertility
- Understand ways of helping to cope with sexuality and early menopause after treatment
Some key features:- “Traffic-light” colours guide you through treatment phases
- 20 color-coded “Control Points” with detailed flow charts
- Clear end of chapter “Warning”, “Tip” and “Remember” icons and summaries
- 15 real-life patient stories
- Plain English style with garden and other analogies to explain your breast cancer and its treatment
- 125 photographs in full color
- 28 graphically designed diagrams
- 75 hand-picked web links
- Detailed glossary, key references and index
