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Breast Cancer – Who Is At Risk and Understanding The Process – Fact Sheet Part I

By National Cancer Institute
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Wellness

Part I explains what breast cancer is and who is at risk.

Breast Cancer – Planning Treatment – Fact Sheet Part II

By National Cancer Institute
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Wellness

Part two offers a list of detecting techniques and symptoms.

Breast Cancer – Methods of Treatment – Fact Sheet Part III

By National Cancer Institute
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Wellness

Part III offers a list of available treatments for cancer.

Breast Cancer – Stages of Cancer – Fact Sheet Part IV

By National Cancer Institute
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Wellness

Stages of cancer and how they affect the treatment plan.

Breast Cancer – Side Effects and Detail About Treatments – Fact Sheet Part V

By National Cancer Institute
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Wellness

The article describes some side effects and detail about treatments of cancer.

Breast Cancer – Support for Women and Advances In Research – Fact Sheet Part VI

By National Cancer Institute
  • Aging
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Wellness

Part V discusses support for women with cancer, recent advances in research, causes and preventions.

Mammogram Controversy Goes On

By Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Aging
  • Wellness

The author addresses the issue of whether premenopausal women are being accurately informed about the potential harms versus benefits of mammography before undergoing screening.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part ll

By National Cancer Institute
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

The period following a cancer diagnosis is a difficult time of adjustment for family members. Each has to deal with individual feelings, while trying to be sensitive to those of the person with cancer.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part lll

By National Cancer Institute
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Fear of being thought ignorant or pushy has kept many people from asking their doctors about alternative treatments for cancer.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part lV

By National Cancer Institute
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Time along with demonstrations of love, understanding and affection by your partner and family should help you work through your feelings about your changed body image.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part V

By National Cancer Institute
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Some cancer patients live alone and some feel they have no one to live for. This increases loneliness and can make the will to live seem a bitter irony.

Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part l

By National Cancer Institute
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions

A diagnosis of cancer is a powerful stimulis against procrastinating on kindly or beautiful things and a reminder that many of the material things aren’t that urgent.

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