| Description |
xxi, 223 pages ; 24 cm |
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Originally published: 2013. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
After her diagnosis of hormone-negative breast cancer, health journalist Patricia Prijatel did what any reporter would do: start investigating the disease, how it occurs, how it's treated, and how to keep it from recurring. While she learned that important research on triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) was emerging, she found a noticeable lack of resources on the disease, which differs from hormone-positive breast cancer in important ways, including prognosis and treatment options. Triple-negative breast cancer disproportionately affects younger women and African-American women--and some forms of it can be more dangerous than other types of breast cancer. But there are many reasons to be hopeful, as Prijatel shows in this book. |
| Subject |
Prijatel, Patricia, 1945- -- Health.
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Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Breast -- Cancer -- Treatment -- Popular works.
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| ISBN |
9780199393855 (pbk.) |
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0199393850 (pbk.) |
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