breast cancer

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breast cancer

Breast cancer

current and emerging trends in detection and treatment
2006
Examines the causes and treatments of breast cancer, and discusses technologies in breast cancer treatment, screening and diagnosis, and ways to prevent it.

Dancing through the shadows

1997
When she learns that her mother has breast cancer, Ellen finds that preparing for a special dance and helping with an archaeological dig help her to cope.

What girls learn

a novel
1997
Tilden and her younger sister Elizabeth are uprooted again when their ever optimistic, romantic mother Frances moves them north to live with Nick, the owner of a limosine service, but everything seems to be going just fine until Frances discovers a lump in her breast.

Cancer made me a shallower person

a memoir in comics
2006
The author presents a humorous chronicle of her battle with breast cancer in comic-strip format.

Refuge

an unnatural history of family and place
2001
Explores how human emotional life becomes intertwined with a particular natural landscape.

Ice bound

a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole
2001
The author describes her life-changing experience working as a doctor in Antarctica in 1999, during which time she discovered she had breast cancer and had to treat herself with the aid of her own patients and U.S. doctors via the Internet.

The breast cancer update

2008
Explains the symptoms of breast cancer along with its history, management, and treatment; and provides personal accounts of those who have been affected by it.

Breast cancer

2000
Discusses the history, diagnosis, prevention, and treatments of breast cancer and explores its effects on society.

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