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Summary: This book helped me more than any other source!
Review: A friend sent me this book and it really helped me get through the whole breast cancer experience. It is a perfect book for a young woman going through breast cancer. It has great practical advice, such as eating ice during chemo, and it keeps you laughing! I strongly recommend this book!
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Summary: Excellent !
Review: I came across this book via co-author Deborah Cohen's "webchat" over the Washington Post's web site a couple of weeksago...Her and Dr. Gelfand's clarity in presenting the various phases of breast cancer - diagnosis, treatment and follow-up options in understandable terminology and good-humored, easy-to-read conversational style made this book, if not the actual experience of breast cancer, enjoyable. I recommend it especially to anyone recently- diagnosed with breast cancer (and her friends and family) as a "road map" through the initial "emotional tidal wave" experience.
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Summary: The daughter's guide to Mom's reality
Review: I found this book three years ago when my 60+yrs old Mom faced breast cancer surgery and I needed some facts for myself and education in what I would face when I traveled to be with her after the surgery. Truly a girlfriends guide or as I like to say the "daughter's guide". It allowed Mom and I to talk about this in the reality of breast cancer and not "nice" over it. We both read much of it together.
I now purchase it for friends of mine that face surgery and the after treatments.
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Summary: Very helpful- full of practical tips
Review: I got my mother this book when she was first diagnosed and found it very helpful for both of us. The "Do's and Don'ts" section for friends and family is indeed very useful, as previous reviewers state. I suspect that little tips like how to avoid mouth sores when getting chemo (suck on ice!) are likely to be worth the price of the book. I also recommend the two books by John S. Link, which are slightly heavier reading but go into more technical detail on the very latest treatment options such as "dose-dense" regimes.
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Summary: Only for early stage breast cancer
Review: I wish I had realized this really was for early stage breast cancer. At one point she even says if the two groups and said that if you were of the early stage you would be reading this. She often talks of the good survival rate in early stages. As I have a large aggressive tumor I do not fit into this category and therefore would not have purchased this book. In fact reading this at first made me worried and scared.A Breast Cancer Journey by ACS was much more helpful. I did give it two stars because if you do have early stage it does have some value.
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Summary: Inspiring book for those of us fighting the battle
Review: This book is the Bible for breast cancer patients! It has info on every imaginable issue you will deal with. I found the info to be practicle and helpful. I give this book to every breast cancer friend I meet. A GREAT gift for newly diagnosed women.
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Summary: maybe okay for some people
Review: This book may be okay for some people, but it had very little information for me. I have DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) and this book had very little information about it. I felt like my type wasn't worth her time to write about since it's mostly treated with radiation therapy and surgery. And the surgeries that she mostly talks about are masectomy types. It might help you but it did not help me at all.
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Summary: Best for Stages 1-2
Review: This is a well written, easy to read guide throught the scary world of breast cancer. I found it to mostly address the concerns of those diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. My copy was missing a few chapters towards the end (it instead repeated earlier pages), so check your copy when it arrives. Amazon makes returns very simple.
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Summary: This book saved my life!
Review: This was the first book I read as I began my journey through the maze of healthcare that is Breast Cancer treatment! I read several others, but kept coming back to this one and kept remembering what it said and it kept me going with the most positive advice and practical knowledge!
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Summary: Just Get Me Through This!
Review: This was THE most helpful book I read in my cram reading before I had my own breast cancer bout last summer! It truly helped me see a light at the end of the tunnel and it wasn't the headlight of an oncoming cancer train! It helped me keep a level head and ask a LOT of questions BEFORE surgery.
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