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Contents

Introduction: Why This Book Was Written

1 The Controversies That Drive This Book

SECTION I

General Breast Care Guidelines by Age and Sex

2 For Children, Teens, and Women Under Forty

3 For Women Over Forty

4 For Women of Childbearing Age: Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Lactation

5 For Men

SECTION II

Common Breast Problems

6 Breast Pain

7 Abnormal Mammograms: Calcifications and Densities

8 Breast Lumps

9 Nipple Discharge

SECTION III

Uncommon but Perilous Breast Problems

10 Infiltrating Lobular Cancer: The Devil’s Cancer

11 Inflammatory Breast Cancer: The Silent Killer

12 Paget’s Disease of the Nipple

SECTION IV

Controversies in Breast Care

13 The Breast Self-Exam Controversy

14 “My Mammogram Was Normal, and Now I’m on Chemo”

15 Shame on You, Dr. Krauthammer: Why He’s Wrong About Mammograms

16 Mammograms: The Spin Stops Here

17 Your Bra: A No-Phone Zone

18 Genetic Testing

SECTION V

Prevention

19 Beating the Genetic Odds: Exercise, Diet, and Weight Control

20 Alcohol, Vitamins, and Hormones: What Helps and What Hurts

21 “Why Me?” . . . Think DDT: The Connection Between Environmental Toxins and Cancer

SECTION VI

After Diagnosis

22 Just Diagnosed: Questions You Might Have

23 Who Needs a Second Opinion—and Why?

24 Mastectomy Versus Lumpectomy

25 Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy

26 Breast Reconstruction After Lumpectomy

SECTION VII

Hope

27 Better Breast Care for All

28 The Importance of Hope

Conclusion

Appendix I: Breast Cancer: Risk Assessment

Appendix II: Support Services

Appendix III: Finding a Breast Surgeon

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

About the Authors