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Confronting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer - Identify Your Risk, Understand Your Options, Change Your Destiny (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,151
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Confronting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer - Identify Your Risk, Understand Your Options, Change Your Destiny...

Confronting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer - Identify Your Risk, Understand Your Options, Change Your Destiny (Hardcover)

Sue Friedman, Rebecca Sutphen, Kathy Steligo; Foreword by Mark H. Greene

Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book

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"Be informed. Be empowered. Be well."

If you are concerned that the cancer in your family is hereditary, you face difficult choices. Should you have a blood test that may reveal whether you have a high likelihood of disease? Do you preemptively treat a disease that may never develop? How do you make decisions now that will affect the rest of your life? This helpful, informative guide answers your questions as you confront hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.

Developed by Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE), the nation's only nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting families affected by hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, this book stands alone among breast and ovarian cancer resources. Equal parts health guide and memoir, it defines complex issues facing previvors and survivors and provides solutions with a fresh, authoritative voice.

Written by three passionate advocates for the hereditary cancer community who are themselves breast cancer survivors, "Confronting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer "dispels myths and misinformation and presents practical risk-reducing alternatives and decision-making tools. Including information about genetic counseling and testing, preventive surgery, and fertility and family planning, as well as explanations of health insurance coverage and laws protecting genetic privacy, this resource tackles head-on the challenges of living in a high-risk body.

Confronting hereditary cancer is a complex, confusing, and highly individual journey. With its unique combination of the latest research, expert advice, and compelling personal stories, this book gives previvors, survivors, and their family members the guidance they need to face the unique challenges of hereditary cancer.

General

Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
Release date: April 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Sue Friedman • Rebecca Sutphen • Kathy Steligo
Foreword by: Mark H. Greene
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0407-3
Categories: Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Medical genetics
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Popular medicine > Women's health
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LSN: 1-4214-0407-9
Barcode: 9781421404073

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