Assess your true risk of breast cancer / Patricia T. Kelly.
Record details
- ISBN: 0805064680
- Physical Description: xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 2000.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "An Owl book." Includes index. Notes: p. [233]-241. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I Human Part -- 1. Those Emotions We Know So Well--or Do We? 15 -- Part II Just the Facts, Ma'am -- 2. Age, Family History, and High-Risk Areas: Decoding the Statistics 33 -- 3. How Cancer Cells Arise 51 -- 4. Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast Cancer Risk 64 -- 5. Benign Breast Disease (The Disease That Isn't) and In Situ Breast Cancers (The Cancers That Aren't) 81 -- 6. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and Breast Cancer Risk 110 -- 7. Some of Those "Other" Risks: Reproductive History, Diet, Alcohol, and the Pill 135 -- Part III Using the Facts -- 8. Navigating the Medical System 155 -- 9. Cancer Risk Assessment and Genetic Testing: Are They for You? 172 -- 10. Elements of Informed Decision Making 191 -- 11. Living at Ease with Uncertainty 214 -- A. Questionnaires to Determine If You Might Benefit from Cancer Risk Assessment 227 -- B. Where to Go for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Information 230. |
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| Subject: | Breast > Cancer > Risk factors. Breast. |
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