This authoritative, comprehensive, up-to-date guide to women's health issues and concerns provides valuable information for women of all ages, with special sections including an "Atlas of the Body" and tips on preventative medicine. In the tradition of the best-selling Family Medical Guide and Encyclopedia of Medicine, the AMA has designed a thorough, accessible guide that will help women take charge of their health. With more that 700 photos and illustrations and a detailed index.

Published October 1996, ISBN: 0679431225
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In Assess Your True Risk of Breast Cancer, Kelly, a medical geneticist who specializes in cancer risk assessment and counseling, shows women how to analyze statistics, put their breast cancer risk into perspective, and take the most appropriate steps for their personal situation. Topics include breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy, cancer cell development, non-cancerous cell growths, genetic testing, and more.

Published October 2000, ISBN: 0805064680
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Taking the principles of Chinese Medicine, Honora Lee Wolfe and Bob Flaws demonstrate how good breast health can be achieved through diet and preventative treatment. After a brief introduction detailing the Chinese medical view of the body and its components, we learn how breast health is just one element in overall good health. In the Chinese medical view, all elements of the body are interconnected, leading to the conclusions that breast health is connected to menstruation, exercise, diet, and mental health, just to name a few. In Better Breast Health, the authors strongly recommend relaxation, regular exercise, and good dietary habits as ways to prevent and help treat breast disease. While Western medicine seeks to treat only the disease and its symptoms, Chinese medicine finds that the disease is only a symptom of an underlying imbalance. With a combination of home remedies and professional treatments, this book strives to help women correct any imbalances and thus experience better breast health.

Published January 1998, ISBN: 0936185902
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Popular talk-show host Rosie O’Donnell teams up with her own breast health specialist, Deborah Axelrod, to bring women a new book about breast cancer. Bosom Buddies: Lessons and Laughter on Breast Health and Cancer laces informative content on breast cancer and breast care with Rosie’s famous sense of humor. O’Donnell, who lost her own mother to breast cancer when she was ten, has had several encounters with suspicious mammograms, needle biopsies, and benign lumps. The book, which is set-up in a question/answer format, covers all aspects of breast health including non-cancerous breast conditions, nipple discharge, breast pain, breast cancer risk, breast disease, diagnosis, treatment, and breast-feeding. The goal: to get people to listen to important health information that could save their lives. All profits from Bosom Buddies go to four leading breast cancer organizations.

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Published November 1999, ISBN: 0446676209
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This comprehensive book covers breast myths and realities and is an essential guide to breast care and health for women of all ages. Dr. Stoppard addresses common concerns and provides lavish, full-color illustration and coverage of such topics as breast physiology, breast care, breast-feeding, sexuality, cosmetic breast surgery, and breast changes, benign and malignant. Of most crucial interest, of course, are the segments on breast cancer and treatment, which relay valuable information on risk, protective factors, prevention, detection, diagnosis, grading, staging, and prognosis. Turning to treatment options, Dr. Stoppard discusses alternatives to breast loss and a bill of rights for those with malignancies as well as radiation and chemical and hormonal adjunctive therapies. The book also has two pages of simple postmastectomy exercises.

Published June 1996, ISBN: 0789404206
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Foods, exercises, and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy. Supportive complimentary medicines to ease side-effects of breast cancer treatments including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and tamoxifen.

Published March 1997, ISBN: 0961462078
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This pioneering new book from Professor James Lawson and his daughter, Amelia Lawson, describes the research-based, scientific progress that has been made in the fight against breast cancer. They outline the basic facts about breast cancer, revealing how reproductive, physical, social, and dietary factors affect the chances of contracting breast cancer. Women can then assess their risk. The authors then suggest steps women can take to reduce their risks of breast cancer. Dr. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, of Harvard Medical School comments, "This is a valuable book that may change the lives of many women and the perspectives of many investigators. I strongly recommend it."

Published May 1999, ISBN: 007470723X
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Until recently, there was little women could do to prevent breast cancer. After years of research, nutrition is emerging as one of the most important weapons to fight this deadly disease. Now best selling author Dr. Bob Arnot provides a powerful, safe, easy-to-follow diet that can actually transform the structure of the breast and alter the flow of hormones that induce breast cancer. Dr. Arnot, NBC News chief medical correspondent, integrates and clearly explains the latest and most important breast cancer research from around the world. He gives 12 detailed steps to prevent breast cancer and provides specific cancer-prevention strategies for premenopausal and postmenopausal women, breast cancer survivors, and girls. Dr. Bob's advice will also provide many other benefits, from improving overall health to lowering the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis.

Published October 1998, ISBN: 0316051144
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A new report on the causes of breast cancer, an expose of the cancer establishment's traditional approach, and a life-saving program for staying healthy, The Breast Cancer Prevention Program provides a fascinating, informative, and empowering blueprint for health. Dr. Samuel S. Epstein and David Steinman describe the many simple, straightforward ways women can help protect themselves against breast cancer. Supported by a wealth of scientifically documented, medically sound information, this book outlines the unpublished "Dirty Dozen" risk factors for breast cancer and describes in detail the ways to avoid them.

Hardcover published October 1997, ISBN: 0025361929
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Paperback published October 1998, ISBN: 0028626346
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This handbook offers the cutting-edge research and professional guidance women need to maintain lifelong health, prevent breast cancer through exercise and nutrition, and information on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery from breast cancer. With one out of eight women getting breast cancer in her lifetime, The Complete Book of Breast Care offers the cutting-edge research and professional guidance you need to maintain the lifelong health of your breast and to combat cancer at any age. From the preventive power of exercise and nutrition to the potential risk of replacement hormones, fertility drugs, and birth control pills, this book is a resource you can turn to before and after a problem occurs.

Hardcover published October 1996, ISBN: 0449909034
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Paperback published October 1998, ISBN: 0449912418
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A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century by Ellen Leopold

Leopold, a breast cancer survivor and writer on women's health issues for the Chicago Tribune, the Nation, and Self Magazine, examines the social dynamics that have shaped contemporary attitudes toward breast cancer. She looks closely at the interaction between the male physician and the female patient as a key aspect of this dynamic. The rise in breast cancer consciousness developed for the most part, she finds, outside the feminist movement, with women volunteers drafted by the male-dominated American Society for the Control of Cancer (later the American Cancer Society) to spread its message about the benefits of early detection. Attention is also given to the impact of the National Cancer Act of 1971, First Lady Betty Ford's breast cancer in 1974, and the subsequent appearance of the first nationally known breast cancer advocate, Washington Post writer Rose Kushner.

Published in October 2000, ISBN 0807065137
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Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend is the story of an online friendship between two women who meet on a breast cancer bulletin board over the Internet. Adding a new twist on the old epistolary format, Laney Katz Becker's novel, which is based on her breast cancer experience, is told entirely through email. Lara is a trendy East Coaster; Susan is a down-to-earth Midwesterner. The women are seemingly very different, but there are many more ways in which they are alike. As their emails fly back and forth Susan and Lara share their most heartfelt thoughts about their health, children, careers, hobbies and marriages. This touching story of two strangers becoming soul mates feels like a few hours spent with a best friend over coffee-warm, comforting, and wonderfully satisfying.

Published in October 2000; ISBN: 0380978539
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In the DK Healthcare series for women, Dr. Miriam Stoppard addresses the subject of breast health at a woman's every lifestage, whether teenager or post-menopausal woman. Packed with practical information based on the most recent medical research and the latest healthcare ideas. Extensive illustrations.

Published June 1998, ISBN: 0789430967
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This fully revised edition of Dr. Love's important book reflects every major new development in breast care including screening, diagnosis, treatment, and research. Every chapter has been brought up to date. The book includes the newest information on silicone implants, the reliability of mammograms, new imaging techniques, genetics, risk factors and prevention, environmental hazards, diet, hormone use, bone marrow transplants, tamoxifen, immediate reconstruction, and treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Women all over the country and the doctors and nurses who care for them have established Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book as a standard reference on its subject.

Published May 1995, ISBN: 020140835X
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In this comprehensive, accessible book, breast cancer surgeon and women’s health advocate Susan Love, MD discusses menopause and the pros and cons of taking hormone replacement therapy. Dr. Love does not make any recommendations about hormone therapy, but instead, she presents the benefits and limitations objectively and encourages women to make their own decision based on their situation. She also discusses alternative treatments of hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. Interesting, Dr. Love and co-author Karen Lindsey discuss how menopause is viewed in different cultures and how Western culture and the pharmaceutical industry have turned menopause into a "disease" instead of a natural part of the aging process. Dr. Love has also published Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book, an informative look at breast cancer and breast health. For more information on Dr. Susan Love and her books, visit her website at http://www.susanlovemd.com/

Published May 1998, ISBN: 081296392X
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Feed Your Need provides readers with valuable information on food, hormones, and motivational techniques to create positive lifestyle changes and help prevent breast cancer. In addition to a lengthy section on hormones and breast cancer, the book contains unconventional advice from top educators at Harvard University and the University of Toronto to help readers deal with pain, fatigue, depression, weight gain, and more. "The overall message of Feed Your Need is extremely relevant in the prevention of breast cancer," Peachment told Imaginis.net.

Published January 2000, ISBN: 0967346207
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This book is also available at a discounted price directly from the publisher: email [email protected].

101 Essential Tips: Breast Care is like an introductory college course and lays out all the essential concepts of the breast care in direct, to-the-point advice and explanations. Every point is easy to master quickly and more than 250 full-color photos and illustrations illuminate the tips. This book is small, compact and inexpensive and would make a great gift for any women you care about.

Published November 1997, ISBN: 0789419750
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101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body by Brenda Lane Richardson and Elane Rehr

In 101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body, two mothers—one a clinical psychologist, the other an award-winning journalist—have teamed up to provide parents with practical ideas tailored to girls from birth through the teenage years. These initiatives inform parents and encourage them to take active roles in helping their daughters develop confidence, treat their bodies with love and respect, and make peace with their unique builds so that they can revel in a sense of femaleness and physical competence.

Published in August 2001, ISBN: 0060956674
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Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber by Ken Wilber

Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken and his wife Treya through marriage, illness, and, finally, Treya's death from cancer. Ken's brilliant and wide-ranging commentary is combined with Treya's journals to create an inspiring portrait of healing, suffering, wholeness and harmony.

Published January 1993, ISBN: 0877736987
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Joy is a Plum Colored Acrobat by Wendy Burton

Diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer, Wendy Burton used a meditation tape that sparked imaginative visualizations during her cancer treatment. As the inside flap of the book explains, "Her imaginings of tiny Cirque du Soleil acrobats leaping lightly through her breast ducts, with brightly colored beach umbrellas protecting her good cells as little chimney sweeps scurried through and swept away all of the cancerous cells, were so helpful for her throughout the process that she began sharing them with friends who were struggling with their own diagnoses." Joy Is a Plum Colored Acrobat is a unique form of therapy that provides readers with 45 different visualization exercises to engage in before, during, or after cancer treatments. Examples include flying, gigantic pink flamingos, cruising down the Amazon, the Happy Dance, and many more. The book contains four color illustrations to help patients with the visualizations.

Published in September 2004, ISBN: 1400054796
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The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories by Peggy Fleming and Peter Kaminsky

In all of her roles—athlete, wife, mother, role model, and cancer survivor—Olympic gold medalist Peggy Fleming has relied upon the discipline she cultivated as a young skater. Now in this intimate memoir, she eloquently reveals her life story and shares her secrets to serenity and success. Fleming’s toughest challenge came 30 years after she won the gold medal for ice skating. In 1998, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In this book, Peggy candidly details her courageous physical and emotional battle with cancer and explains how she ultimately prevailed.

Published in October 1999, ISBN: ISBN: 0671038869
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Reduce Your Breast Cancer Risks: Basic Facts Plus Four Simple Changes That Work by Joyce C. Smolkin and M. Margaret Kemeny

Reduce Your Breast Cancer Risks: Basic Facts Plus Four Simple Changes That Work provides women with a roadmap to awareness and change. In one complete package, the book clarifies the latest breast cancer research data, protocols, and myths; defines unavoidable and controllable risk factors; and outlines a four-step program for better health that includes a complete breast health program, plus nutrition, exercise and stress management facts, and realistic strategies for making changes.

Published in January 2001, ISBN: 0595158315
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Winged Victory: Altered Images: Transcending Breast Cancer by Art Myers (Photographer) and Maria Marrocchino

Winged Victory is an inspirational book of photographs that celebrate the strength and beauty of women who have survived beast cancer. Many of the photographs include husbands, children, and friends who were especially supportive during the woman's diagnosis and treatment. Women who own the book describe it as an intimate, moving, and courageous tribute to breast cancer survivors.

Published in August 1996, ISBN: 1889169005
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Women's Cancers: How to Prevent Them, How to Treat Them, How to Beat Them by Kerry A. McGinn and Pamela J. Haylock

Presented in straightforward, textbook fashion by two nurses, one a survivor of breast cancer and the other a daughter of a cancer patient, Women's Cancers is an easy-to-use resource guide designed to help women diagnosed with or at risk for lung, colorectal, breast, pelvic, uterine, ovarian, vaginal, vulvar, and rare gynecologic cancers. The authors address issues surrounding a cancer diagnosis, from finding the right physician to psychological factors that can affect health.

Published February 1998, ISBN: 0897932234
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