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In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the optimal age to start getting mammograms. While some praised the new recommendation as sensible given the smaller benefit women under fifty derive from mammography, many women's groups, health care advocates, and individual women saw the guidelines as privileging financial considerations over women's health and a setback to decades-long efforts to reduce the mortality rate of breast cancer. In The Big Squeeze, Dr. Handel Reynolds, a practicing radiologist, notes that this episode was only the most recent controversy in the turbulent history of mammography since its introduction in the early 1970's. In a book written for the millions of women who face the decision about whether to get a mammogram, health professionals interested in cancer screening, and public health policymakers, Reynolds shows how pivotal decisions made during mammography's initial launch made it all but inevitable that the test would be contentious. He describes how, at several key points in its history, the emphasis on mammography screening as a fundamental aspect of women's preventive health care coincided with social and political developments, from the women's movement in the early 1970's to breast cancer activism in the 1980's and '90's.At the same time, aggressive promotion of mammography made the screening tool the cornerstone of a huge new industry. Taking a balanced approach to this much-disputed issue, Reynolds addresses both the benefits and risks of mammography, charting debates, for example, that have weighed the early detection of aggressively malignant tumors against unnecessary treatments resulting from the identification of slow-growing and non-life-threatening cancers. The Big Squeeze, ultimately, helps to evaluate the ongoing public health controversies surrounding mammography and provides a clear understanding of how mammography achieved its current primacy in cancer screening.

Breast --- Breasts --- Chest --- Large-breasted women --- Cancer --- Diagnosis --- History. --- Radiography

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Breast --- Cancer --- History. --- Breasts --- Chest --- Large-breasted women

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This book presents expert viewpoints on the diverse situations faced by practitioners in their daily practice when caring for patients with breast cancer, with focuses on the patient-centered treatment process. It provides the entire process of different patient cases from patient history, radiologic examination, pathologic results, surgical outcome and medical treatment. The aim is to equip readers with all the knowledge required in order to implement appropriate case-by-case approaches in the real world, where circumstances frequently differ from the typical or straightforward scenarios depicted in textbooks and articles. The book will serve as a practice guideline for novices less familiar with the field, but it will also be a valuable aid for more experienced practitioners and will even offer assistance in research planning. Furthermore, the book will help some patient to infer their own treatment by using similar cases as a model.

Breast --- Cancer --- Treatment --- Breasts --- Chest --- Large-breasted women --- Oncology. --- Tumors

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A transcendent account of the effects of breast cancer.

Women patients --- Breast --- Female patients --- Patients --- Breasts --- Chest --- Large-breasted women --- Poetry. --- Cancer

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After her diagnosis of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), health journalist Patricia Prijatel did what any reporter would do: start investigating the disease, how it occurs, and how it's treated. While she learned that important research was emerging, she found a noticeable lack of resources on the disease, which affects 70,000 women a year and differs from hormone-positive breast cancer in important ways, including prognosis and treatment options. In Surviving-Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Prijatel delivers research-based information on the biology of TNBC; the role of genetics, family history, and race; how to navigate treatment options; and a plethora of strategies to reduce the risk of recurrence. Woven throughout the book are stories of women who have faced TNBC: mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters who went through a variety of medical treatments and then got on with life. Surviving Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Book is a roadmap for women who want to be empowered through their treatment and recovery.

Breast --- Breasts --- Chest --- Large-breasted women --- Cancer --- Patients --- Treatment --- Prijatel, Patricia, --- Health.