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| The Big Shock: First Events | |
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| It Ain't Gold in Them Hills | |
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| Breast Cancer: The Big Picture | |
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| What It Means--Then and Now | |
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| First Clues: Yours and Theirs | |
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| Peas and Marbles: Finding a Lump | |
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| Using the Eagle Eye | |
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| Get the Picture: Mammograms | |
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| Dreaded Word: Irregular | |
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| It's Biopsy, Not Autopsy | |
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| Core Needle--to the Heart of the Matter | |
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| Surgical Snip-Snip | |
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| It's Not the Avon Lady Calling | |
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| Getting Psyched | |
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| Now You Know: Tears and Fears | |
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| We Need to Talk | |
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| Things Are Going to Be Different | |
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| What's Good for the Goose | |
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| Finding the Words and Voice | |
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| Get Ready for the 180 Degrees | |
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| First Things First | |
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| Speak Up and Speak Out | |
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| First Love: Telling Your Partner | |
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| Family Matters: Telling the Kids | |
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| Age Matters | |
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| Gender Bender | |
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| Folk Tales: Telling Your Parents | |
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| Heart to Heart: Telling Your Friends | |
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| A Tear to the Eye | |
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| A Final Word to the Wise | |
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| Learning a New Vocabulary | |
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| The Doctor's Word | |
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| Survivor's Notebook | |
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| Tell-All Diagnosis | |
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| All the World's a Stage | |
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| Hotlines: Who You Gonna Call? | |
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| Read All About It! | |
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| Stacks and Stacks at the Library | |
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| Timely if You Have the Time | |
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| Bookstore Shelves | |
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| Books from Dot Com | |
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| Web Site Browsing | |
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| And the Survivors Say | |
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| Taking Their Word for It | |
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| Dr. Who? | |
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| Say What? Trust and Tact | |
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| Certificates on the Wall | |
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| They've Seen It All | |
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| No Dale Carnegie Flunk-Outs | |
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| And the Winner Is | |
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| Second--and Third--Opinions | |
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| When? | |
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| Who? | |
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| Survivors' Advice | |
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| Take It or Leave It | |
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| Decisions, Decisions, Decisions | |
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| Who, What, When, and Where | |
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| Recommendation, Please | |
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| Standard or Not? | |
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| Clinical Trials: Innocent or Guilty | |
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| Insurance: Your Personal KGB | |
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| Complementary Combos | |
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| Mind over Matter | |
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| Take Your Vitamins (and Herbs), Dear | |
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| Oldest Medicine of All | |
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| The Final Choice: Yours | |
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| The Question, Please | |
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| Learn the Lingo | |
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| The Envelope, Please | |
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| Call for a Working Plan | |
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| What the Law Says | |
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| I Am Woman, I Am Strong! | |
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| Working Through It | |
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| Do I Want to Stay Here? | |
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| The Sick Day Option | |
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| Letting Others In | |
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| Protecting Yourself at Work | |
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| Becoming a Semi-Legal Eagle | |
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| Shock Waves: Dealing with Treatment | |
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| Taking Your Lumps: Lumpectomy | |
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| They're Gonna Do What? | |
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| Surgical Biopsy | |
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| Partial Mastectomy | |
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| Lumpectomy | |
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| Minus One Golf Ball | |
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| Recipe for the Routine | |
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| First Things First | |
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| Getting Wired | |
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| Getting Prepped | |
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| Getting Exorcised | |
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| How Much Ouch? | |
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| Going Topless: What's Ahead? | |
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| Getting the Word | |
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| The Long Haul | |
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| When They Take It All: Mastectomy | |
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| Names and Their Faces | |
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| It's All Procedure: Yours | |
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| Pass Your Tests | |
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| The Personal File | |
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| Routine Rigors | |
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| Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven | |
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| When You Awake: What to Expect | |
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| On the Home Front | |
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| The Great Unveiling | |
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| Between Surgery and the Rest | |
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| The Little Things That Count | |
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| Non-Arm Arm: No Meds Here, Please | |
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| Yes, We Have No Razors | |
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| The Path from Pathology | |
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| Positive Margins | |
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| Positive Lymph Nodes | |
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| In Situ, No; Invasive, Yes | |
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| Hormone Receptors Receiving? | |
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| Second Opinion? | |
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| Before More, Heal! | |
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| Exercise: Back to the Range | |
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| Port--or Starboard? | |
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| Things Your Mother Never Told You | |
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| Chemotherapy: Cruel to Be Kind | |
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| The Why and Who of Chemotherapy | |
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| Doing the Chemo Dance: Who's Leading | |
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| Which Cocktail Is Good for Me? | |
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| The Form of Medication | |
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| At Home or in the Hospital | |
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| A Day in the Life of | |
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| The Side Effects: The Eyes of the Beholder | |
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| Menopause: A Change in "The" Change | |
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| Sign, Everywhere a Sign | |
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| Physical Reaction: Body Talk | |
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| Working Through It | |
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| Taster's Choice | |
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| Skinned! | |
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| Asking for Immunity | |
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| Bodily Functions | |
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| Hair Loss: When Bald Ain't Beautiful | |
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| Creating a Calm During the Storm | |
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| Everybody's Waiting for the Weekend | |
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| Put Your Hand in a Hand | |
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| Pamper Your Pantry | |
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| Keep the End in Mind | |
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| The Reed or the Oak | |
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| Idle Hands | |
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| Your Secret Garden | |
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| If the Shoe Fits | |
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| Radiation Therapy: Getting Nuked | |
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| Thirty Days Hath September | |
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| Treatment: Internal or External | |
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| Inquiring Minds | |
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| The Best-Laid Plans | |
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| Lydia, the Tattooed Lady | |
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| A Day in the Life of | |
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| Cotton, Cornstarch, and Comfort | |
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| Cotton, the Fabric of Your Life | |
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| Cornstarch for What Ails You | |
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| The Big "C"--Comfort | |
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| Possible Side Effects for a "Red Hot Mama" | |
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| Hormone Therapy: The Pill | |
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| Hormones: The Cycle of Life | |
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| The Old "What For"? | |
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| Pill, Pills, and No Pills | |
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| Today's Leaders | |
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| Side Effects: What Can I Do? | |
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| What's Typical ... for Menopause | |
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| Hot Flashes | |
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| Vaginal Dryness/Itching | |
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| Leg Cramps | |
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| Depression | |
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| Odds and Ends | |
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| The Serious Side of Side Effects | |
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| NOT! | |
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| Dem Bones, Dem Bones: DEXA Scans | |
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| After Shock: Dealing with the Tremors | |
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| The Big Arm: Lymphedema | |
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| The Why in the Road | |
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| An Ounce of Prevention | |
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| Diagnosis: And the Answer Is... | |
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| A Pound of Cure | |
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| Manual Lymphatic Drainage | |
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| Compression Bandaging | |
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| Compression Sleeve | |
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| Complex Decongestive Therapy | |
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| Proper Care and Diet | |
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| Some Final Words | |
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| Again and Again: The Follow-Up | |
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| Parole Officer: Doctor's Visits | |
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| Ongoing Going On | |
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| Strike Two? | |
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| Know the Drill | |
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| Toolbox: Help Along the Way | |
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| Caution Flag: Risk Factors | |
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| Once! Again? | |
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| Roots: Family History | |
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| Identity Crisis? | |
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| Once Upon a Time: Personal History | |
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| Is It the Water? The Environment | |
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| Forward March | |
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| Emotional Turmoil: Diamond in the Rough | |
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| The Emotional Firing Range | |
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| Shock: No, Not Me! | |
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| Anger: Why Me? | |
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| Fear: Hiding Out | |
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| Guilt: Was It the Chocolate? | |
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| Hope: Light at the End of the Tunnel | |
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| Shock Absorbers: Finding Support | |
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| Groupies: Yea or Nay? | |
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| For That Let-Down Feeling | |
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| Schwarzkopf's Troops | |
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| Routinely Nonroutine | |
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| Finding a Bosom Buddy | |
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| The Long Reach | |
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| Skip the Pity Party | |
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| Warning Signs | |
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| Stumbling Blocks | |
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| Mind and Body: Spiritual Support | |
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| The Incredible Mind-Body Connection | |
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| Meditation: A Pause That Refreshes | |
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| Visualization: My Mind's Eye | |
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| Hypnosis: You're Getting Sleepy | |
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| Faith and Prayer | |
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| Personal Strength | |
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| Support Tools | |
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| Another Voice | |
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| Journal Jottings: Jabs and Gems | |
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| Right Write Rite? | |
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| Get Set, Go! | |
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| Along for the Ride | |
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| ... And You Shall Receive | |
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| When the Fiddle String Breaks | |
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| Easing Others' Pain: Walking the Mile | |
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| Easing into Normalcy | |
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| Another Mile: Finding the Strength | |
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| So, How's Your Husband? | |
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| Takin' Care of Business | |
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| Behind Closed Doors | |
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| Calling It Quits! | |
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| And How Are the Kids? | |
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| Helping Others Help | |
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| Going Beyond Personal Borders | |
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| Words and Actions ... and Hugs | |
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| The Aftermath: Its Many Parts | |
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| Back to the Bikini: Reconstruction | |
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| So You Want a Remake! | |
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| The Great Debate: Yes | |
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| The Great Debate: No | |
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| The Generic Plan | |
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| Look Out, Dolly Parton: Implants | |
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| 36A or 36C? Making a Breast | |
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| Belly Dancer: From the Front | |
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| Tote That Bale: From the Back | |
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| New Nipple News | |
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| What the Happy Customers Say | |
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| The Rest of the Story | |
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| Boob in a Box: Prostheses | |
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| Ups and Downs: Prosthetic Issues | |
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| Agony and Ecstasy: Being Fitted | |
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| Sellers of the Goods | |
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| Having a Fit over Fits | |
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| Partial Parcels | |
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| The Full Load | |
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| Standard Style | |
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| Lighter, Cooler Forms | |
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| Stick-On | |
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| Custom-Made | |
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| Swim Prosthesis | |
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| Before the Real Thing Comes Along | |
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| Life Goes On: Physical and Emotional Changes | |
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| From the Mirror: The Outward Signs | |
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| An Apple a Day | |
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| Silken Tresses | |
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| Fish Scales and Hide: Skin Tone | |
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| Exercise: Keep on Keepin' On | |
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| Healing Body and Soul | |
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| Sleepy Time Gal | |
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| Hot Woman--or Hot and Sweaty? | |
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| Sex and Intimacy | |
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| Attitude Adjustment | |
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| Never a Wasted Day | |
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| Fashion Fling: New Clothing Priorities | |
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| Now and Later | |
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| Not-So-Mad Hatter | |
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| Mentionable Unmentionables: Bras and Lingerie | |
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| A Real Lift | |
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| Nobody's Secret | |
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| Knits and Knots and Dresses | |
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| Dive In | |
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| Fabrics of Your Life | |
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| Recurrence: Safe to Go Back in the Water? | |
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| Types of Recurrence | |
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| Every Ache and Pain | |
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| Medical Check-Ups: Better Safe Than Sorry | |
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| Coping with Recurrence | |
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| The Medical Outlook | |
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| Fact or Fiction | |
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| The Waiting Game | |
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| Facing Death: Day to Day | |
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| The Great Equalizer | |
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| The Unknown | |
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| I'm What? | |
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| It Isn't Fair! | |
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| Death's Emotional Roller Coaster | |
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| Good Grief! | |
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| Tying Up the Loose Ends | |
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| Support: The Tie That Binds | |
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| Some Final Choices | |
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| Living Wills | |
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| Hospice Care | |
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| Euthanasia: Cheating the Grim Reaper | |
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| What Legacy Do You Leave? | |
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| Bequeathing Your Body | |
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| There's No Place Like Home | |
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| Dying with Dignity | |
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| Faith: An Everlasting and Final Frontier | |
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| Volunteers and Advocates: Working for the Cause | |
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| Repaying the Debt | |
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| Wanted: Help for Free | |
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| One on One | |
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| One in a Group | |
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| The Next Steps | |
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| Talk the Talk; Walk the Walk | |
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| Not Just You Against the World | |
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| Funds for Research | |
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| Community Functions | |
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| Political Campaigns | |
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| Here's How | |
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| Keep the Letters Coming | |
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| Knock on Doors | |
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| Faces in the Crowd | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Support Groups | |
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| Sources of Prostheses and Post-Surgical Clothing | |
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| Informational Web Sites | |
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| Index | |