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The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book
From the breast health experts at Mayo Clinic comes a guide to the many aspects of breast cancer—from prevention, to care and coping, to survival, to living with hope. Trustworthy information offered in a spirit of companionship.
The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book is the trusted resource for anyone wanting reliable information about this dreaded disease. Mayo Clinic set out to provide comprehensive and up-to-date facts in easy-to-understand language. They've succeeded in this handbook for those who've been diagnosed, or for those who want to give sensitive and helpful support to someone with breast cancer. The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book stands out for its tone of companionship, as well as for the many patient stories that appear throughout the book.
This straightforward, yet approachable resource will empower all who are affected by breast cancer. Here are facts about the disease, but also suggestions and inspiration for working effectively with one's doctors and caregivers. This volume offers solid tools for coping with the many uncertainties and decisions that need to be made when one is diagnosed.
The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book is the trusted resource for anyone wanting reliable information about this dreaded disease. Mayo Clinic set out to provide comprehensive and up-to-date facts in easy-to-understand language. They've succeeded in this handbook for those who've been diagnosed, or for those who want to give sensitive and helpful support to someone with breast cancer. The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book stands out for its tone of companionship, as well as for the many patient stories that appear throughout the book.
This straightforward, yet approachable resource will empower all who are affected by breast cancer. Here are facts about the disease, but also suggestions and inspiration for working effectively with one's doctors and caregivers. This volume offers solid tools for coping with the many uncertainties and decisions that need to be made when one is diagnosed.
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453 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2012
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April 25, 2013
You might think the authors of The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book, would offer readers the most up-to-date information on how to prevent breast cancer from happening.
But… you would be wrong.
Instead, the new book devotes only 12 out of 412 pages to educating women on how to reduce their risk levels.
Sadly, the authors have ignored more than twenty years of research;
a long list of specific known and probable causes and subsequent lifestyle changes that can naturally and significantly reduce a woman’s breast cancer risk. Here are three choices that are natural, safe, healthy, simple and inexpensive:
• Use hormone-free IUDs or have a tubal ligation so you can avoid taking birth control drugs. WHY? The progestin in all contraceptive drugs can initiate breast cancer and exponentially accelerate the growth of tumor cells.
See the new Busting Breast Cancer ebook: Birth Control Drugs http://www.amazon.com/Busting-Breast-...
• Use safe year- round tanning and/or D3 supplements to raise your vitamin D3 blood serum levels above 50 ng./ml. WHY? This level of D3 enables your healthy breast cells to destroy any mutated cells.
See Michael Holick's book, The Vitamin D Solution http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Solutio...
• Avoid hormone-flooded dairy, meat and poultry, along with sugar-laced foods and chlorinated water. WHY? Eating organic, local and antibiotic-free foods, whole grains, and drinking carbon-filtered water helps keep your breasts clear of mutated cells.
See Mark Hyman's The Blood Sugar Solution, http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sugar-Sol...
Sadly, The Mayo Clinic, like most other non-profit and for-profit cancer centers in the U.S. , remains strictly focused on the bottom line. Helping women stay healthy is not a profitable undertaking. Stopping the disease from happening in the first place is apparently not their job.
Meanwhile, an increasing percentage of U.S. women, of all ages, and those under 45, are being diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.
• American Cancer Society estimates show a 5.8 % a year increase in breast cancer in women of all ages.
• A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found a 2% annual increase over the past three decades in late-stage metastatic breast cancer in women under 40 years, using 8 % to 18 % population samples, created by the National Cancer Institute.
• American Cancer Society estimates also show an 11.8 % annual increase since 2007 in new cases of invasive breast cancer in women under 45 years old.. based on reported total cases from 46 U.S.states.
Why is more breast cancer happening to our younger women, than ever before?
Who is helping women learn how to stop breast cancer before it can start?
How can we turn off this faucet of more and more breast cancer?
The Breast Cancer Fund www.breastcancerfund.org & Busting Breast Cancer www.bustingbreastcancer.org are two women-based groups that publish info on how women can help stop breast cancer before it starts.
We need to realize that given our current for-profit sick-care system, individual women are the only group in the United States today, that has both the self interest and the power to actually stop most breast cancer before it starts.
Thankfully, women, one by one, can now make new lifestyle choices that will greatly reduce this unnecessary disease.
But… you would be wrong.
Instead, the new book devotes only 12 out of 412 pages to educating women on how to reduce their risk levels.
Sadly, the authors have ignored more than twenty years of research;
a long list of specific known and probable causes and subsequent lifestyle changes that can naturally and significantly reduce a woman’s breast cancer risk. Here are three choices that are natural, safe, healthy, simple and inexpensive:
• Use hormone-free IUDs or have a tubal ligation so you can avoid taking birth control drugs. WHY? The progestin in all contraceptive drugs can initiate breast cancer and exponentially accelerate the growth of tumor cells.
See the new Busting Breast Cancer ebook: Birth Control Drugs http://www.amazon.com/Busting-Breast-...
• Use safe year- round tanning and/or D3 supplements to raise your vitamin D3 blood serum levels above 50 ng./ml. WHY? This level of D3 enables your healthy breast cells to destroy any mutated cells.
See Michael Holick's book, The Vitamin D Solution http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Solutio...
• Avoid hormone-flooded dairy, meat and poultry, along with sugar-laced foods and chlorinated water. WHY? Eating organic, local and antibiotic-free foods, whole grains, and drinking carbon-filtered water helps keep your breasts clear of mutated cells.
See Mark Hyman's The Blood Sugar Solution, http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sugar-Sol...
Sadly, The Mayo Clinic, like most other non-profit and for-profit cancer centers in the U.S. , remains strictly focused on the bottom line. Helping women stay healthy is not a profitable undertaking. Stopping the disease from happening in the first place is apparently not their job.
Meanwhile, an increasing percentage of U.S. women, of all ages, and those under 45, are being diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.
• American Cancer Society estimates show a 5.8 % a year increase in breast cancer in women of all ages.
• A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found a 2% annual increase over the past three decades in late-stage metastatic breast cancer in women under 40 years, using 8 % to 18 % population samples, created by the National Cancer Institute.
• American Cancer Society estimates also show an 11.8 % annual increase since 2007 in new cases of invasive breast cancer in women under 45 years old.. based on reported total cases from 46 U.S.states.
Why is more breast cancer happening to our younger women, than ever before?
Who is helping women learn how to stop breast cancer before it can start?
How can we turn off this faucet of more and more breast cancer?
The Breast Cancer Fund www.breastcancerfund.org & Busting Breast Cancer www.bustingbreastcancer.org are two women-based groups that publish info on how women can help stop breast cancer before it starts.
We need to realize that given our current for-profit sick-care system, individual women are the only group in the United States today, that has both the self interest and the power to actually stop most breast cancer before it starts.
Thankfully, women, one by one, can now make new lifestyle choices that will greatly reduce this unnecessary disease.
May 20, 2022
Extremely helpful and loaded with illustrations, this book has gotten me through my initial diagnosis of breast cancer and through a lumpectomy with two revisions.
Medical jargon is explained easily here, and the diagrams of what invasive cancer looks like compared to atypical ductal hyperplasia or normal cells are well placed. It's a terrific resource.
Medical jargon is explained easily here, and the diagrams of what invasive cancer looks like compared to atypical ductal hyperplasia or normal cells are well placed. It's a terrific resource.
November 28, 2012
This excellent patient/reader friendly book, written by the highly acclaimed experts, The Mayo Clinic, is an informative look at breast cancer and is not one to be missed for any woman who has or knows someone who has breast cancer. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about all the aspects of breast cancer, recovery, choices, emotions, etc. of the patient. And my personal opinion is that it is about time someone wrote information that is told in a way that the patient can understand!
February 10, 2016
This book is written more as a guide for people who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. That being said, it is more of a resource book than the type of book you read cover-to-cover. I did read several chapters in their entirety. There are many charts, graphs, and illustrations that delivered information an easy-to-understand "bites."
February 7, 2015
Info presented in a very readable and understandable way. I learned a lot about current screening tests, diagnostic results and treatmenThe options. Made me realize how much I did not know before.
April 25, 2018
This book was super helpful while my mom was going through breast cancer treatment. It allowed me to have the knowledge to look up the appropriate studies (love NIH's website) and ask the hard questions of her doctor (since she wouldn't).
Got to Chapter 18.
Got to Chapter 18.
March 25, 2013
This book is packed with helpful information. Put it on your "To-Buy" list.
December 3, 2018
It tells you what you need to know in a way that is easily understandable.
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