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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Diagnostic Choices | |
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| Shock | |
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| My Diagnosis | |
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| Your Diagnosis Physical Exam and Medical History Mammography Diagnostic Ultrasound Biopsy Axillary Dissection/Nodal Sampling Blood Tests Chest X Rays Pathology Report Scans The New Genetic Test Questions to Ask Your Doctor After a Cancer Diagnosis | |
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| My Reaction to Diagnosis | |
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| Treatment Choices | |
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| Your Surgical and Radiation Choices Toward More Limited Surgery Mastectomy versus Lumpectomy | |
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| The Value of Surgery When Should Surgery Be Done? | |
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| Breast Reconstruction Radiation versus No Radiation | |
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| My Surgical and Radiation Decisions | |
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| Should You Have Chemotherapy or Ovarian Ablation? | |
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| The Concept of Adjuvant Chemotherapy | |
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| The Concept of "Success" with Chemotherapy | |
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| The Drugs Chemotherapy and Node-Negative Women Chemotherapy, Ovarian Ablation, and Node-Positive | |
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| Women Chemotherapy for Women over 70 Chemotherapy to Avoid Mastectomy in Patients with Large Tumors An Overview | |
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| Why I Didn't Have Chemotherapy | |
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| Tamoxifen What Does Tamoxifen Do? | |
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| Using Tamoxifen to Treat Breast Cancer Estrogen Receptor Status | |
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| Tamoxifen and Node-Negative Patients Tamoxifen and Node-Positive Patients | |
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| Tamoxifen and Menopausal Status | |
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| Tamoxifen Toxicity Potential Side Benefits of Tamoxifen | |
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| Tamoxifen and Chemotherapy | |
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| Tamoxifen and Healthy Women: The Prevention Trial Tamoxifen Checklist | |
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| Your Alternative Choices for Treatment Metabolic Therapy (Laetrile) Shark Cartilage | |
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| The Gerson Therapy | |
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| The Macrobiotic Diet | |
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| The Hoxsey Formula Linus Pauling and Vitamin C Therapy Psychological Intervention Other Alternative Therapies | |
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| My Alternative Treatment Decisions | |
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| Preventing Breast Cancer | |
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| Diet and Prevention Dietary Fat Fiber Anticancer Foods Organically Grown Food The Big Picture | |
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| Supplements and Prevention | |
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| Supplements and Conventional Medical Philosophy Primary Prevention, Secondary Prevention | |
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| Antioxidants and Prevention | |
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| The FDA versus Science Vitamin C and Prevention Beta-Carotene and Prevention Selenium and Prevention Vitamin E and Prevention | |
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| A Review of Possible Antioxidant Doses Sunshine, Vitamin D, and Prevention Iron and Cancer Exotic Supplements | |
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| Lifestyle and Prevention Exercise Alcohol Coffee Green Tea Weight Sunshine Estrogen Replacement Therapy and the Birth Control Pill Electromagnetic Waves EcoCancers | |
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| Developing My Prevention Lifestyle Eating and Deprivation Eating Out, Eating In, and In Between Developing a Prevention Lifestyle | |
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| Living with Breast Cancer | |
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| Dealing with Change | |
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| No More Headaches | |
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| Getting On with Our Lives | |
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| Making the Transition: Eating In, Eating Out | |
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| Guided Imagery/Stress Release Tapes | |
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| Food Sources of Antioxidants | |
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| Iron-Free Multivitamin/Mineral Sources Questions to Ask Your Doctor After a Cancer Diagnosis | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |