Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide

This lucid step-by-step guide has established itself as the indispensable book women need to make informed decisions about the care that is right for them.

Breast cancer will strike one out of every eight women in the United States. From the moment the disease is suspected, women are called upon to make numerous choices under intense stress, and none of them should go it alone. The completely revised fourth edition of this invaluable handbook, long praised for helping women manage every stage of treatment and recovery, includes the many modifications and advances in the rapidly changing field of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Peter Pressman, MD, FACS, is a surgical oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer. After 35 years of private practice in New York, he is now Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He has been a member of the Board of Directors and the Breast Cancer Detection and Treatment Subcommittee of the American Cancer Society, and is currently attenting surgeon at New York Presbyterian, Beth Israel, and Lenox Hill Hospitals.

Yashar Hirshaut, MD, FACP, is a medical oncologist and also specializes in breast cancer. In addition to his private practive in New York, he is an attenting physician at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Beth Israel, and Lenox Hill Hospital and is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Cornell University.