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Breast cancer recurrence and advanced disease : comprehensive expert guidance / Barbara L. Gordon ... [et al.].

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Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.

Breast -- Cancer -- Popular works.

Breast -- Cancer -- Relapse -- Popular works.

9780822347422 (cloth : alk. paper)

0822347423 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780822347637 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0822347636 (pbk. : alk. paper)

xxvi, 356 p. ; 25 cm.

Local and distant recurrence -- Common questions about recurrence -- Predictors of recurrence -- Recurrence statistics -- Reducing chances of recurrence -- Local and regional recurrence -- Distant recurrence/Metastatic Cancer -- Immediate concerns and best care -- Emotional self-care -- Getting the best care -- Researching your disease and treatment -- Exploring treatment options -- Medical treatments -- Physical and emotional considerations in determining treatment -- Local treatment aimed at specific tumor sites -- Treatment aimed at cancer cells throughout the body ; systemic treatment -- Monitoring treatment -- Focusing on supportive/palliative treatment -- Understanding cancer development, treatment, and emerging therapies -- Understanding cancer development -- How current treatments fight cancer -- How targeted therapies fight cancer -- The future -- Complementary, alternative, and integrative care -- Comparison of CAM and standard western medical practices -- Nature's pharmacy in cancer treatment -- Biologically based practices -- Whole alternative medical systems -- Movement and manipulative practices -- Mind-body interventions -- Energy therapies/considerations in using a CA< practice -- Selecting a complementary health care practitioner -- Managing pain and understanding the dying process -- Pain from metastatic cancer -- Describing and evaluating pain -- Attacking the causes and symptoms of pain -- Euthanasia and suicide -- Choices in dying -- How we die -- Practical matters -- Medical rights -- Paying for and managing medical expenses -- Final arrangements: will, durable power of attorney, advance directive -- Memorial service -- Emotional and spiritual well-being -- Responding to loss -- Interrelating with others: those you see occasionally -- Interrelating with those closest to you -- At ease near life's end -- Reflections on death -- Appendix A: Absolute and relative risk -- Appendix B: Diet and breast cancer -- Appendix C: Complementary cancer centers -- Glossary of medical and scientific terms.

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