Breast Cancer Handbook & Resource Guide
This new title is designed to bring together necessary and valuable information for anyone living with breast cancer, a disease that will affect 13 percent of women in their lifetime. For those providing care and support to individuals with breast cancer, this resource provides easy-to-understand and helpful information and connects readers to many sources of support. Breast Cancer Handbook & Resource Guide offers insightful statistics and reports, as well as discussions about prevention, treatment, and outcomes.
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Studies & Statistics About Breast Cancer: This four-color section is more than 300 pages and includes detailed reports, maps, graphs and tables from sources such as the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. Coverage is current, comprehensive, and discusses the prevalence of breast cancer, causes, treatments, and co-existing conditions.
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Types of Breast Cancer and Treatment: This section includes resources on breast cancer specifically. An informative description details the different common types of breast cancer, and goes on to include a variety of resources for patients, their families and caregivers. Information on various treatment options for breast cancer is provided as well.
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Risk Factors of Breast Cancer: This section details numerous risk factors associated with breast cancer including age, obesity, family history, and co-occurring conditions.
- Additional sections include Glossary, Entry Index, and Geographic Index.
The Breast Cancer Handbook & Resource Guide is a necessary reference for public and academic libraries, as well as health care collections, providing information crucial to those living with breast cancer, their broader support network, case workers, social workers, and other health care providers.
