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- Breast Cancer - Cancer fact sheet describing breast cancer and how it can be detected.
www.ricancercouncil.org/facts/brefacts.htm
- Breast cancer - National Cancer Institute's summary of up-to-date information on breast cancer and its prevention, detection, treatment, and supportive care
cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/srchcgi.exe?TYPE=search&EXPR=[PDQID]208/00013&DBID=pdq&SFMT=pdq_statement/1/0/0&PASSTHRU=:ip:209.226.119.157::srchform:PDQ:
- Breast Cancer Bone Marrow Q & A - Background information and latest findings on high-dose chemotherapy with bone marrow or stem cell transplants for Breast Cancer
cancertrials.nci.nih.gov/NCI_CANCER_TRIALS/zones/TrialInfo/News/brca/qaindex.html
- Breast Cancer Risk Factors - This online publication provides international breast cancer incidence and mortality rates in a series of charts and graphs.
rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface/raterisk/risks120.html
- Cancer Clinical Services Quality Assurance Project - The QAP website provides A Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment. The booklet is intended to help a woman become an informed partner in making choices with her health care team.
qap.sdsu.edu/guide.html
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer - IBC - Brochure - This brochure describes the unique symptoms of Inflammatory Breast Cancer - IBC - which is the deadliest and rarest of breast cancers.
www.angelfire.com/bc2/ibcmemorial/ibc.brochure.html#brochures
- Mammograms - Not just once, but for a lifetime - Easy-to-read, straightforward information on mammograms
rex.nci.nih.gov/MAMMOG_WEB/PUBS_POSTERS/EASY_TO_READ/EASY_TO_READ.html
- NCI Publication - What You Need To Know About Breast Cancer - Comprehensive 15-page booklet on Breast Cancer: causes, types, risk factors, early detection, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments and their side-effects, rehabilitation, followup care, and a glossary of related terms.
cancernet.nci.nih.gov/wyntk_pubs/breast.htm
- Prevention of Breast Cancer - Information on breast cancer prevention methods, and current facts about which people or groups of people would most likely be helped by following breast cancer prevention methods
cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/srchcgi.exe?DBID=pdq&TYPE=search&SFMT=pdq_statement/1/0/0&Z208=208_04730P
- Screening for Breast Cancer - PDQ summary on breast cancer screening, with information on breast cancer and what makes it more likely to occur (risk factors), breast cancer screening methods, and current evidence about the effectiveness of screening tests
cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/srchcgi.exe?DBID=pdq&TYPE=search&SFMT=pdq_statement/1/0/0&Z208=208_04723P
- Understanding breast cancer treatment - This booklet can help a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient and her family understand what the diagnosis means and why treatment is necessary. It suggests questions to ask the doctor and identifies other resources for more information.
rex.nci.nih.gov/PATIENTS/aboutbc/ubc_treatment.html
- Understanding Breast Changes - a health guide for all women - Describes screening for the early detection of breast cancer, explains the various types of breast changes that women experience, and outlines methods that doctors use to distinguish between benign (noncancerous) changes and cancer
rex.nci.nih.gov/MAMMOG_WEB/PUBS_POSTERS/UNDRSTNDNG/UNDER_STANDING_CHANGE.html
- Understanding Cancer of the Breast - Online booklet from support group CancerBACUP addressing causes and treatments of breast cancer.
www.cancerbacup.org.uk/info/breast.htm
- UVA - Breast Cancer - Patient Information - Background, risk factors, benign breast care, breast cancer care, and research initiatives.
hsc.virginia.edu/medicine/clinical/surgery/breastcancer.html
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