Living with Breast Cancer

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Reviewed October 2011

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Title:   Personal Stories about Breast Cancer
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to personal stories about living with breast cancer.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Tips and stories
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   Cancer Australia providing information about breast cancer and ovarian cancer for women with breast and ovarian cancer health professionals and well women.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Secondary breast cancer
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
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:   Cancer Australia
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:   Cancer Australia
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:   Living with breast cancer
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   A diagnosis of breast cancer marks the beginning of a journey full of emotional, psychological, physical and practical challenges. Some of these challenges are experienced by many women with breast cancer, others by only a few women.
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Guide for women with early breast cancer
Publisher:   Cancer Australia
Description:   (Revised edition) This guide walks women through every step of their breast cancer journey and is broken down into five key areas: Breast cancer: the facts, Making sense of test results, Treatment, When treatment is over, and Finding support.
Date:   May 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:   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 reviewed have methodological limit...
Date:   Jun 2006
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:   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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