Confronting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Identify Your Risk, Understand Your Options, Change Your Destiny

Contributor(s): Friedman, Sue (Author), Sutphen, Rebecca (Author), Steligo, Kathy (Author), Greene, Mark H (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9781421404073

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Hardcover

$50.95

Pub Date: February 9, 2012

Dewey: 616.99449042

LCCN: 2011019918

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 1.10" H x 9.20" L x 6.20" W ( 1.25 lbs) 288 pages

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Series: Johns Hopkins Press Health Books (Paperback)

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: With its unique combination of the latest research, expert advice, and compelling personal stories, this book gives previvors, survivors, and their family members the guidance they need to face the unique challenges of hereditary cancer.

Brief description: Sue Friedman, DVM (GULFPORT, FL), the founder and executive director of Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE), is a breast cancer survivor with a BRCA2 mutation.

Review Quotes: A fine resource discussing the challenges of living in a high-risk body.
--Midwest Book Review

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