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Living Through Breast Cancer: What a Harvard Doctor - and Survivor - Wants You to Know About Getting the Best Care: What a Harvard Doctor - and ... Best Care While Preserving Your Self-image

Living Through Breast Cancer: What a Harvard Doctor - and Survivor - Wants You to Know About Getting the Best Care: What a Harvard Doctor - and ... Best Care While Preserving Your Self-image

by Carolyn M . Kaelin (Author), Francesca Coltrera (Author)

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    Hardcover 2005

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Synopsis

In a book that will be a source of priceless information and much-needed understanding and support for women with all forms of breast cancer, Dr. Kaelin provides the most up-to-date information on virtually every aspect of the disease, both as a top specialist in the field and as a survivor.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 370
 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
Published: 01 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 0071444637
ISBN 13: 9780071444637

Media Reviews
A breast surgeon and director of the Comprehensive Breast Health Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and herself a breast cancer survivor, Kaelin has the credentials to offer advice to women newly diagnosed. She discusses the process from diagnosis and surgical options to treatment, image concerns, and after-treatment issues, e.g., diet, fertility, and sexuality. Her lucid text is broken into major sections, then smaller and smaller subsections, along with sidebars, and is further enhanced by black-and-white illustrations. She covers the latest thinking on surgical recommendations and the newest drug considerations (capecitabine chemotherapy for older women; Tamoxifen vs. aromatase inhibitors for adjuvant use), while using her own experience as a reference point. Her tone is convivial, her language accessible, even downright cutesy ( wimpy or aggressive cancer, despite surgical intervention, cells may have already scooted into tissue ). Kaelin's goal is to help eradicate the imprint of cancer from women's lives by presenting them with sufficient knowledge and the power to make informed choices. Highly recommended for patient health collections. (Index not seen.)- Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal Library Journal 20050215 In many ways, Kaelin's guide for women diagnosed with breast cancer is just like all the other excellent manuals out there: intelligent, pragmatic and reassuring, it explains how to understand one's diagnosis and treatment options, assemble a care team, handle common changes in looks and deal with feelings common among women with the disease. What sets the book apart, though, is its author's perspective: she is a breast cancer surgeon and director of the Comprehensive Breast Health Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003. She has since had three lumpectomies, a mastectomy, chemotherapy and reconstructive surgery. Not surprisingly, then, Kaelin's book is fairly serious, though not overly academic, and filled with anecdotes from not only her own experiences as a breast cancer patient but from many other women, too. The result is a helpful book that will inform patients and their families, giving them a firm grasp on both the medical and emotional aspects of breast cancer. Kaelin's tone is upbeat but not intensely so; her approach will probably best suit women who just want the facts without too much sentimentality. --PW Publisher's Weekly 20050215
Author Bio
Carolyn M. Kaelin, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., is the director of the Comprehensive Breast Health Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a surgical oncologist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. A nationally respected researcher in the field of women's health, she currently is lead researcher on three studies on quality of life with breast cancer. Dr. Kaelin is the recipient of the prestigious Mary Horrigan Connor Award for Outstanding Contributions to Women's Health. Francesca Coltrera is a medical writer in the Boston area who has covered women's health and many other topics for well over a decade. She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Health Publications and has written for several health web sites. Her work also has appeared in Redbook, Self, Technology Review, and the Boston Herald.