The Breast Cancer Book: A Trusted Guide for You and Your Loved Ones (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) Paperback – September 28, 2021

This book explained Terminology with meaning to me before I went to my doctor appointment. Easy to understand and very helpful.

I got this for a friend who has a loved one going through breast cancer treatment. It provided the perfect amount of information.

Being diagnosed with breast cancer is the last thing anyone would want to hear. The good thing is there are books like this one that breaks down all the medical jargon into simple and understandable language.

This book was published days before I received my Stage 2 Invasive Lobular Carcinoma diagnosis. This book has been a godsend to me—timely, informative, comprehensive, easy to understand, written with compassion and hope. I read the entire book the day I received it. While my journey has just started, this book has been amazingly helpful, and aligns with information provided by my oncologist and surgeons. You are hit with so much information in the early stages of a diagnosis, along with a full range of emotions, it’s overwhelming. This is a fabulous resource to refer to again and again.

Very informative, and information seems up to date with what I've heard from doctors and from my own research. I recommend.

I am easily overwhelmed with too much information, so instead of searching websites and blogs, I wanted one reliable source for breast cancer information. This is it! There is so much helpful information. Reading ahead of my appointments helped me to be prepared for what I was going to hear and have discussions with healthcare providers.

Great information about different types of breast cancer and treatments written in an easy to understand language.

While it provides plenty of information, it completely glosses over and dismisses the amount of pain the procedures and tests cause to the patient. For every situation, it says women feel "minimal pain."Breast cancer patients are called survivors because they survive the gauntlet of torture tests doctors expect them to endure with minimal medication. Let's have a book that's honest about the pain inflicted by the procedures. Wires jammed into delicate tissue, core biopsies that chunk out bits of flesh as big as earthworms, mammogram machines with less pressure sensors than fork lifts, radiation that turns flesh into leather...