Living with Breast Cancer

Follow the links below to find information about living with breast cancer.

Reviewed October 2009

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Title:   Tips and stories
Publisher:   National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre
Description:   This section includes tips and suggestions from women who have been treated for breast cancer
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Secondary breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre
Description:   Secondary breast cancer is invasive breast cancer that has spread from the breast to other parts of the body. Secondary breast cancer is also known as metastatic breast cancer or advanced breast cancer.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   How you might feel after a diagnosis of breast cancer
Publisher:   National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre
Description:   Common responses to a diagnosis of breast cancer include feeling shocked, angry, scared, anxious, sad or depressed.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Impact of a breast cancer diagnosis on partners
Publisher:   National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre
Description:   Many partners find the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer distressing but are reluctant to seek help for themselves because they feel they need to be "strong".
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Breast cancer
Publisher:   RealTime Health Pty. Ltd.
Description:   Online videos and DVD's of the personal stories and patient experiences of women with breast cancer.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Specialist breast care nurses for supportive care of women with breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Breast cancer is a complex disease which has seen survival for women improve over the last 20 years. Many of these improvements are linked to treatment advances, improved screening and a multiprofessional approach to its management. Breast Care Nurses (...
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Breast cancer - Barbara's story
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Barbara was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 45. After the shock of her initial diagnosis she decided not to give in to depression, but to fight her disease.
Date:   Dec 2003
Title:   Prophylactic mastectomy for the prevention of breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Surgically removing both breasts to prevent breast cancer (bilateral prophylactic mastectomy or BPM) may reduce the incidence of breast cancer and improve survival in women with high breast cancer risk, but the studies have methodological limitations. A...
Date:   Feb 2003
Title:   Breast cancer: just words, not a sentence - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Read Valerie's story, a real-life account of living with breast cancer.
Date:   May 2001
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