Breast Cancer

This book explains what breast cancer is, who gets the disorder and why, how it affects the body, diagnosis and treatment options, living with the disease, and future research. Here is a comprehensive guide to what we now know about breast cancer, covering the causes and risk factors of the disease, its effects on the body, the impact of early diagnosis, and evolving treatment options. Increased survival rates have led to a growing population living with breast cancer: a look at that experience and what?s on the horizon in breast cancer research complete the picture.