The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel Empowered and Take Control

by Trisha Greenhalgh, Liz O'Riordan

Overview

The book you can trust to support you at every stage of your treatment - and beyond

Winner of best 'Popular Medicine' book, BMA Medical Book Awards 2019

Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, an academic GP, and Dr Liz O’Riordan, a Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon, are not only outstanding doctors, but they have also experienced breast cancer first-hand.

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 up-to-date source of information. Designed to empower you during your breast cancer treatment, it covers:

-Simple explanations of every breast cancer treatment
-Coping with the emotional burden of breast cancer
-Frank advice about sex and relationships
-Staying healthy during and after treatment
-Dealing with the fear of recurrence
-Living with secondary breast cancer

Packed full of all the things the authors wished they’d known when they were diagnosed, and tips on how to cope with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and beyond, this is the only book you need to read to guide you through your breast cancer diagnosis.

'A much needed guide which is both humane and based on robust evidence.' – Macmillan Cancer Support

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473557024
Publisher:	Ebury Publishing
Publication date:	09/20/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Trisha Greenhalgh (Author)
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh is a GP and internationally recognised academic who works as a senior professor at the University of Oxford and has appeared on Woman's Hour and The Today Programme. She is the author of over 400 academic papers and 15 textbooks, including the bestselling book How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine.

Liz O’Riordan (Author)
Liz O'Riordan is a Consultant Oncoplastic Surgeon who blogs about her experiences as a doctor and patient here: liz.oriordan.co.uk. She has written articles for the Huffington Post, Macmillan, The Pool and Grazia. Her TEDx talk is called ‘Jar of Joy’.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

1 Joining the Cancer Club 1

2 Breast Cancer: An Overview 8

3 Learning More 24

4 Coping Emotionally with Cancer 34

5 Sharing the News 44

6 The Science of Breast Cancer Treatment 63

7 Breast and Armpit Surgery 75

8 Breast Reconstruction 101

9 Having an Operation 122

10 Chemotherapy 132

11 Herceptin and Other Targeted Therapies 155

12 Radiotherapy 162

13 Hormone Therapy and Ovarian Suppression 171

14 Where to Get Support 183

15 Coping with Changes to Your Body 192

16 Treatment-induced Menopause and Infertility 199

17 Relationships and Sex 211

18 Staying Healthy During and After Treatment 220

19 Breast Cancer During Pregnancy 240

20 Breast Cancer in Men 244

21 Breast Cancer in LGBT+ People 248

22 Breast Cancer in Older People 252

23 Secondary (Metastatic) Breast Cancer 256

24 Moving Forward 266

Resources 276

Index 284