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Breast Cancer, October 2008
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Breast Cancer, August 2006
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BREAST CANCER
By: Peter Pressman

The Complete Guide: Fifth Edition

Bantam
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
432 pages
ISBN: 0553385917
EAN: 9780553385915
Paperback
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help

Written by two renowned authorities who specialize in the treatment of breast cancer, a surgeon and an oncologist, this lucid step-by-step guide has established itself as the indispensable book women need to make informed decisions about the care that is right for them.

Breast cancer will strike one out of every eight women in the United States. Because there have been many important changes in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in the last few years, this fully revised Third Edition contains information on the latest developments in the field, including:

• new diagnostic procedures
• changes in the treatment of in situ cancer
• improved surgical techniques
• gene testing
• sequencing radiation and chemotherapy
• HER-2Neu (Herceptin)
• tamoxifen for prevention
• bone marrow and stem cell transplants
• and more

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