Most Important/Frequent Questions Answered in This Book
• How do I know my diagnosis is not a mistake?• What are the most accurate diagnostic tests for breast cancer? • At what Age should I have mammogram - 40, 45 or 50? I hate mammograms. Is there any alternative?• I'm afraid of scarring from surgical biopsy. What is this non-surgical "Liquid Tumor Biopsy?"• I had lumpectomy for DCIS diagnosis. Do I have to have radiation? I'm afraid of deforming my breast & damage to my lungs, esophagus & heart vessels.• What stage my diagnosis is & what does it mean?• I don't want my breasts removed. What is the alternative?• I don't like chemotherapy. What are these non-chemotherapy medications called Targeted Treatments? • I've a Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) despondent to hormone & Chemotherapy. Anything new to treat this aggressive cancer? • What's new in the field of Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC)?• What's the new development in the treatment BC caused by BRCA genes?• What is this New non-chemotherapy form of treatment called 'Immunotherapy' where my body's own cells are activated to destroy cancer cells?• Is my breast cancer curable?Why this book -- what is so exciting in the field of breast cancer? Take a look:
• Many early breast cancers, with timely and appropriate treatments, are now curable.• The five-year survival rate of cancers confined to the milk ducts and milk lobules (DCIS & LCIS) has gone up to 100%.The five-year survival of Stage 1 (larger tumor or lymph node-positive tumor) has gone up to almost 90%.• Combination of 3-D and Digital Mammograms Reduces False Positive Mammograms by 14% & Weeds out Invasive Ductal Carcinoma by 39%.• For the first time FDA labels a promising & new breast cancer drug the title of "Breakthrough" drug which doubles Progression Free Survival and extends overall survival (Ch:13).• Do Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Advil, Aleve... Help Reduce Recurrence Risk for Hormone-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer & spread into lymph glands? Yes!• Do you - or someone you know -- have advanced breast cancer? Don't be disappointed. Familiarize yourselves with the latest guidelines for the management of advanced stage breast cancer issued by International Panel of experts.• Do You Have Hormone Receptor Positive or HER-2 positive Breast Cancer? Don't lose Hope: Read About Two New Breakthrough Drugs.• During the past 60 years, regardless of how advanced the breast cancer is, the average number of women who survive for 10 years has increased by 300%. And about 90% of women diagnosed with breast cancer will survive at least 10 years.• Even the survival of women with breast cancer far gone to distant organs has increased to almost 700 percent. The National Cancer Institute reported that the number of cancer survivors in the United States has increased to an all-time high of 12 million (400% increase since 1971).• Modern breakthroughs have converted a killer disease into a chronic disorder. Women with breast cancer metastasized to their bones, lungs and liver now live for years and years.• Some young women with limited metastasis might even be cured!