Mastectomy Books

Handbook of Breast Surgery The Handbook of Breast Surgery provides a concise description of the full range of surgical procedures that constitute the practice of a specialist breast surgeon, complementing existing works on breast cancer and operative guides to breast surgery and breast reconstruction. It is illustrated with simple and informative diagrams and there are a range of useful appendices including information on staging criteria, EORTC specifications for breast cancer surgery and a summary of clinical traits. The management of breast disease demands a broad range of skills in addition to technical competence. With the increase in early specialization, this book will appeal to trainee surgeons who have made a commitment to breast surgery and reconstruction. It will also serve as a guide to the role of surgery for other health professionals involved with the care of patients with breast disease, including oncologists, radiotherapists and other allied health workers in breast care units.

Me, Amazon Woman : LCIS Breast Cancer : The Controversy Lobular Carcinoma in Situ (LCIS) is a type of breast cancer that lives within the milk glands, growing unnoticed, undetectable. Mammograms do not detect it, physical examination reveals nothing. Even after it is discovered - usually during tests for other problems - physicians almost always tell the patient not to worry about it and to take no action. "Watch and wait," they advise. It's a "safe" cancer.

Current research indicates that risk factor profiles are not accurate. It also indicates that it is likely that all breast cancer begins in the milk glands and ducts as either LCIS or its closely related cousin, DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ).

Like most women, Kim Davies wanted to believe that she was "safe." But after researching LCIS, she realized that this cancer is safe only when it remains inside the walls of the milk glands. Once it breaks through, it becomes very active and is the most aggressive form of breast cancer.

Women of the Amazon tribes (Amazon means "breastless") would cut off a breast to improve the accuracy of throwing a spear or shooting an arrow, to ensure their survival. Davies elected to have a double mastectomy to ensure hers.

This book is about hope, about surviving, about making a tough choice. It's about doing what has to be done to ensure your survival. Although research on LCIS is scant, Davies presents that facts you need to make the decision to save your own life - to LIVE as an Amazon woman!

Living in the Postmastectomy Body: Learning to Live in and Love Your Body Again Undergoing a mastectomy is a devastating experience. This unique and hopeful coping guide fills a gap in women's health literature. While there are many fine books on breast cancer, none deal with the very real, and very practical issues facing a woman who is about to undergo a mastectomy and who then must deal with the challenges of living in the post-mastectomy body. Written from a professional and personal experience, Zuckweiler covers the practical, physcial, psychological, social and sexual aspects of recovery. And, she provides advice for every day life, like buying and altering clothes, choosing a prosthesis, treatments for phantom pain, and new exercises she has developed to deal with the pain and special needs of mastectomy patients.

The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America In this riveting narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a superb medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer. Revisiting the past, Lerner argues, can illuminate and clarify the dilemmas confronted by women with--and at risk for--the disease. Writing with insight and compassion, Lerner tells a compelling story of influential surgeons, anxious patients and committed activists. There are colorful portraits of the leading figures, ranging from the acerbic Dr. William Halsted, who pioneered the disfiguring radical mastectomy at the turn of the century to Rose Kushner, a brash journalist who relentlessly educated American women about breast cancer. Lerner offers a fascinating account of the breast cancer wars: the insistent efforts of physicians to vanquish the "enemy"; the fights waged by feminists to combat a paternalistic legacy that silenced patients; and the struggles of statisticians and researchers to generate definitive data in the face of the great risks and uncertainties raised by the disease. And for this new paperback edition, Lerner has included a postscript in which he discusses the most recent breast cancer controversy: do mammograms truly lower mortality rates or do they lead to unnecessary mastectomies? In Lerner's hands, the fight against breast cancer opens a window on American medical practice over the last century: the pursuit of dramatic cures with sophisticated technologies, the ethical and legal challenges raised by informed consent, and the limited ability of scientific knowledge to provide quick solutions for serious illnesses. The Breast Cancer Wars tells a story that is of vital importance to modern breast cancer patients, their families and the clinicians who strive to treat and prevent this dreaded disease.

Surgical breast reconstruction is seen by many women as the only procedure that will ultimately enable transcendence of the temporary, mastectomized state and facilitate rehabilitation of their 'true', familiar, embodied self. Unlike other texts examining breast cancer experience, this book argues that this self-understanding is profoundly influenced by breast cancer culture and the medicalization of the post-surgical body. In addition the research establishes a strong link between, on the one hand, the personal feelings and actions of women with breast cancer, and on the other, powerful discourses and practices of the breast cancer movement.

When Mommy Had A Mastectomy How does a mother tell a daughter she has breast cancer? How can a child understand what a mastectomy and reconstruction are all about? When Mommy Had a Mastectomy is a children's book that explains, in a simple and clear manner, why Mommy is sick and what she does after she feels better to return to normalcy. It tells the story of a mother and daughter discovering new ways to show they care despite the painful illness of breast cancer and subsequent breast reconstruction surgery. Pairing enchanting illustrations and an engaging story, When Mommy Had a Mastectomy is sure to be a treasured book that will help children and their parents through a difficult time and will provide a fond memory for families to reflect on and share after tragedy.

Over the past decade vertical scar mammaplasty has gained wide popularity amongst surgeons and patients because it stands for minimal scars and long-lasting aesthetic results. The refinements and modifications of the technique achieved during the past decade and now collected in this book will facilitate the use of the technique and give each plastic surgeon the opportunity to adopt his or her own technique to obtain an optimal outcome. The step-by-step instructions and their high-quality illustrations will help improve results, lessen the number of complications and successfully manage any complications that do arise.

Breastless in the City: A YoungWoman's Story of Love, Loss, and Breast Cancer "I was only 25 years old when I became a widow," Cathy Bueti writes in this gripping memoir of courage and survival. "He was my high school sweetheart and, like Romeo and Juliet, we fell in love when we were only 15 years old." But her husband's shocking death in a car crash is only the beginning of Cathy Bueti's story. Six years later, at age 31, emotionally recovered, with a career and a new life, she was suddenly diagnosed with breast cancer. This is Cathy Bueti's astonishing, very human story - ultimately a journal of a unique woman who survives every challenge life can place before her.

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