The Breast Advice
eBook - ePub

The Breast Advice

All You Need to Know About Breast Health, Screening, and Treatment

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Breast Advice

All You Need to Know About Breast Health, Screening, and Treatment

About this book

Everything you need to know about breast health and breast cancer in one place, essential advice you can trust from Mount Sinai’s Chief of Breast Surgery, Dr. Elisa Port, and her patients.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in the United States. There are 300,000 women diagnosed in the United States each year, and of all cancers women get, one in three will be breast. Everyone has been touched by breast cancer in some way – as the more than 4 million breast cancer survivors in the US can attest. With misinformation flooding us from chat forums to wellness influencers, where can we turn for the truth?

The Breast Advice offers a trustworthy resource as you navigate assessing your risk of breast cancer, navigate screening and prevention, and treatment, dispelling myths and laying out the facts, including the latest innovations from AI to new screening techniques. Bringing in patients' wisdom together with her 25 years of experience as one of New York’s most celebrated specialists, Mount Sinai’s Chief of Breast Surgery Dr. Elisa Port has created a comprehensive guide to breast cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment. Addressing:


  • Lifestyle factors to prevent breast cancer
  • Risk assessment, screening, and testing—including the latest technology
  • Diagnosis—choosing a doctor, what to ask, how to manage hard news
  • Treatment—from radiation and chemotherapy to surgery and novel therapies
  • Top ten pieces of advice from patients who have been through it


An essential resource for everyone with breasts, The Breast Advice will be passed around and relied upon for years to come.

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Information

Publisher
HarperOne
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9780063492622

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Breast Health
  5. What Is Breast Health?
  6. Section 1: Lifestyle
  7. Chapter 1: Was It the Sugar?
  8. Chapter 2: How Are Hormones Involved
  9. Chapter 3: Supplements
  10. Chapter 4: Stress
  11. The Breast Lifestyle Advice
  12. Section 2: Screening
  13. Chapter 5: Mammograms
  14. Chapter 6: More Screening Options
  15. Chapter 7: MRIs
  16. Chapter 8: A Bit about Biopsies, and Some of the Normal Things We Might Find
  17. Chapter 9: Cutting-Edge Screening Technology
  18. Chapter 10: If You Feel Something, Say Something!
  19. The Breast Screening Advice
  20. Section 3: High Risk
  21. Chapter 11: Genetic Testing
  22. Chapter 12: When It Comes to Genetics, Don’t Forget Your Father’s Side
  23. Chapter 13: Other Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
  24. Chapter 14: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tools
  25. The Breast High-Risk Advice
  26. Part II: Breast Cancer
  27. Section 4: The Basics of Breast Cancer
  28. Chapter 15: What Is Breast Cancer?
  29. Chapter 16: How to Be a “Breast Friend” to Someone Who Has Been Diagnosed
  30. Section 5: Surgery
  31. Chapter 17: Lumpectomy vs. Mastectomy and Making the Big Decision
  32. Chapter 18: One Breast or Both?
  33. Chapter 19: Save the Nipple?
  34. Chapter 20: To Reconstruct or Not to Reconstruct?
  35. Chapter 21: Lymph Node Surgery
  36. Chapter 22: Treating DCIS
  37. Chapter 23: Is Breast Cancer Overtreatment a Thing?
  38. The Breast Surgery Advice
  39. Section 6: Treatments Beyond Surgery
  40. Chapter 24: Chemotherapy
  41. Chapter 25: Chemotherapy First or Surgery First?
  42. Chapter 26: Radiation
  43. Chapter 27: Antihormonal Treatment
  44. Chapter 28: All the Latest Novel Therapies
  45. Chapter 29: Breast Cancer Follow-up and Can It Come Back?
  46. The Breast Treatment Advice
  47. Section 7: Special Situations
  48. Chapter 30: Rare Types of Breast Cancer
  49. Chapter 31: Young Women with Breast Cancer
  50. Chapter 32: Fertility Preservation
  51. Chapter 33: Disparities in Breast Cancer Care (and Health Care in General)
  52. Chapter 34: Male Breast Cancer
  53. Chapter 35: Talking to Our Children, Friends, and Colleagues
  54. Silver Linings
  55. Acknowledgments
  56. References
  57. Index
  58. About the Author
  59. Also by Dr. Elisa Port
  60. Copyright
  61. About the Publisher

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