Living with Breast Cancer

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Reviewed May 2008

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Title:   Personal stories living with breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   This section includes personal accounts from women men and families affected by a diagnosis of breast cancer. If you are interested in contributing to this section please let us know.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Breast cancer - Barbara's story
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Barbara was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 45. After the shock of her initial diagnosis she decided not to give in to depression, but to fight her disease.
Date:   Dec 2003
Title:   Breast cancer: just words, not a sentence
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Read Valerie's story, a real-life account of living with breast cancer.
Date:   May 2001
Title:   Prophylactic mastectomy for the prevention of breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Surgically removing both breasts to prevent breast cancer (bilateral prophylactic mastectomy or BPM) may reduce the incidence of breast cancer and improve survival in women with high breast cancer risk, but the studies have methodological limitations. A...
Date:   Jun 2004
Title:   Specialist breast care nurses for supportive care of women with breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Breast cancer is a complex disease which has seen survival for women improve over the last 20 years. Many of these improvements are linked to treatment advances, improved screening and a multiprofessional approach to its management. Breast Care Nurses (...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   Every womans cancer is different and the way the cancer develops will be different for each woman. For some women living with a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer is similar to living with a chronic illness.
Date:   Feb 2004
Title:   Living with breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   The diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer causes changes in your life and can change how you think and feel about things. These changes and their effects will not be the same for all women
Date:   Oct 2003
Title:   Feelings and fears living with breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   Sharing your thoughts and feelings with others even painful feelings can help you cope with your diagnosis.
Date:   Oct 2003
Title:   Information for partners of women with breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC)
Description:   When the woman you love has breast cancer written from a males perspective
Date:   Nov 2006
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