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Author Holloway, Cheryl D., author.

Title The Black woman's breast cancer survival guide : understanding and healing in the face of a nationwide crisis / Cheryl D. Holloway ; foreword by Philip Agop Philip
Published Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages)
Contents Part 1 : Dealing with the basics for Black women -- Why Black women need to pay close attention to cancer and cancer screening -- Dealing with common emotions and talking to others -- Types of breast cancer Black women may develop -- Part 2 : Understanding cancer test results -- Breast cancer health screens -- Understanding cancer test results -- Part 3 : What you need to know about breast cancer treatment -- Surgery -- Radiation therapy -- Chemotherapy, anti-estrogen (endocrine) therapy, combined therapies, and emerging treatments -- Watching out for other forms of cancer -- Cancer is gone : Be happy, but don't let your guard down -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : organizations that can help -- Appendix B : other websites with helpful information -- Appendix C : glossary
Summary Breast cancer is reaching epidemic levels, especially among Black women. This survival guide provides tools that women?Black women in particular?can use to identify and combat this all-too-common threat.? Speaks from the perspective of a Black woman who has had breast cancer and is also an academic who researched breast cancer? Provides current information and practical advice for beating breast cancer? Explains tests and treatment options? Includes information on research studies and outcomes for Black women with breast cancer? Explores why Black women are more likely than women of any other race or ethnicity to develop aggressive and fast-growing breast tumors during their childbearing years
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 19, 2023)
Subject Breast -- Cancer.
African American women -- Health and hygiene
Breast -- Cancer -- Treatment
African American women -- Medical care
African Americans.
Women.
Breast Neoplasms
Black or African American
Women
African American.
women (female humans)
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General
MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine
MEDICAL / Diseases
MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine
MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
Women
African Americans
African American women -- Health and hygiene
African American women -- Medical care
Breast -- Cancer
Breast -- Cancer -- Treatment
Form Electronic book
Author Philip, Philip A. (Philip Agop), writer of foreword.
LC no. 2017010693
ISBN 9781440856099
1440856095