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• Title:Choices in breast cancer treatment : medical specialists and cancer survivors tell you what you need to know / edited by Kenneth D. Miller.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Miller, Kenneth D., 1956-
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WP870 .C495 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Breast--Cancer--Treatment--Decision making.
  
• Description:x, 405 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  
• Series:Johns Hopkins Press health book.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780801886843 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  9780801886850 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0801886848 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0801886856 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction: Understanding the Choices / Kenneth D. Miller
  Pt. 1. Big Picture
  Ch. 1. Making Decisions / Laura A. Siminoff
  Ch. 2. What Is Breast Cancer? / Kenneth D. Miller
  Ch. 3. Statistic of One / April Fritz
  Ch. 4. "Why Me?" A Discussion of Risk / Mark Robson
  Pt. 2. Understanding the Treatments: The Doctors' Perspective
  Ch. 5. Assembling the Treatment Team and Charting a Course / Kenneth D. Miller
  Ch. 6. Facing Surgery / Peter J. Deckers and Theodore N. Tsangaris
  Ch. 7. Profiles of Two Breast Surgeons / Jerome Sandler and Robert Barnett
  Ch. 8. Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer / Abram Recht
  Ch. 9. Profiles of Two Radiation Oncologists / Luther Ampey and Susan Stinson
  Ch. 10. Beyond Local Therapy: Hormonal Therapy and Chemotherapy / Antonio C. Wolff and Nancy E. Davidson
  Ch. 11. Profiles of Three Medical Oncologists / Claudine Isaacs, Sandra Swain and Chitra Rajagopal
  Ch. 12. Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy: What Are My Options? / Roger J. Friedman
  Ch. 13. Profiles of Two Reconstructive Surgeons / Gregory O. Dick and Maurice Nahabedian
  Ch. 14. Treatment Options for Metastatic Breast Cancer / Daniel F. Hayes
  Pt. 3. Notes on the Experience of Having Breast Cancer
  Ch. 15. Shock of Finding Out / Kenneth D. Miller
  Ch. 16. Necessary Decisions: Surgery, Radiation Therapy, and Breast Reconstruction / Kenneth D. Miller
  Ch. 17. Considering Adjuvant Therapy / Kenneth D. Miller
  Ch. 18. Reflections on the Experience / Kenneth D. Miller
  Pt. 4. Survivors Tell Their Stories
  Ch. 19. Stories from Women at High Risk
  Ch. 20. Stories from Women with Non-Invasive Breast Cancer
  Ch. 21. Stories from Women with Invasive Breast Cancer
  Ch. 22. Stories from Women with Advanced Breast Cancer
  Pt. 5. When Cancer Specialists Get Cancer
  Ch. 23. Professional and a Patient / Carole Seddon
  Ch. 24. Lessons Learned / April Fritz
  Ch. 25. "You're Going to Live" / Lillie Shockney
  Conclusion: The Agony and the Opportunity of Choice / Kenneth D. Miller.