Your Guide to Breast Cancer - Brossura

Lewis, Jacqueline

Brossura

ISBN 10: 034090500X ISBN 13: 9780340905005

Casa editrice: Hodder Education, 2005

Riassunto

Your Guide to Breast Cancer is the patient's ultimate source of esential and invaluable information. Providing all the necessary facts, guidance and support, this book will enable the reader to make informed choices and regain control of their life.

Written by a leading breast and oncological surgeon, one of the only female consultants in the UK, this book covers everything you will need to know about breast cancer from breast screening and diagnosis to treatment and how to deal with the illness in everyday life. This book gives you advice on all the options available and in what form, reassure and support you, when you need it the most.

The clear, straightforward design of the book together with original features such as myth/fact boxes, key terms, question and answer sections and a chapter on who the patient/carer might meet in the NHS and their role in the treatment of the illness will prepare the reader for all that may lie ahead.

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Recensione

"The straightforward and supportive tone, clear layout and jargon-free style enusre that the illness is demystified, and that the reader has all the necessary information in one place." (Professor Sir John Lilleyman, past President of the Royal Society of Medicine)

"Patients' ultimate source of essential and invaluable information" (In the Pink)

L'autore

Jacqueline Lewis is one of the only female plastic and oncologic breast surgeons in the UK and is currently consultant surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, London. She also teaches undergraduates and postgraduates and maintains an active interest in clinical research for breast cancer. Jacqueline has published papers on oncoplastic breast surgery and plastic surgery in peer reviewed journals and presented her work at national and international meetings.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Hodder Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 034090500X
• ISBN 13: 9780340905005
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 177
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile