Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
September 15, 2021
Want to learn more about breast cancer? The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) has information on everything from detection, to treatment, to myths. Check out the guides here:
Bald is Better With Earrings
A Survivor’s Guide to Getting Through Breast Cancer
Andrea Hutton
A guide for women with breast cancer shares step-by-step coverage of how to navigate the emotional and physical challenges of every stage of treatment.
Breasts: the Owner’s Manual
Every Woman’s Guide to Reducing Cancer Risk, Making Treatment Choices, and Optimizing Outcomes
Kristi Funk
A holistic guide to total breast health arms women with the most up-to-date tools for prevention and includes compassionate and complete explanations of treatment options.
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Hope & Healing for Your Breast Cancer Journey: Surviving and Thriving During and After Your Diagnosis and Treatment
Julie Silver
A collection of stories for breast cancer patients; covering how patients can best handle the diagnosis; how to manage their way through treatment, rehab, and recovery; and handling being a cancer survivor in the long term.
Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor’s Soul
Stories to Inspire, Support and Heal
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Mary Olsen Kelly
Features inspirational stories offering words of love, support, courage, hope, and empowerment to those who are newly diagnosed or long term survivors of breast cancer.
Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book
Susan M. Love, Karen Lindsey
Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book has long been the bible for the newly diagnosed. In this completely revised fifth edition, it also becomes a guide for those at risk of getting breast cancer, survivors interested in the consequences of their treatment, and anyone who wants to understand the new research about how the local environment influences the manifestations and treatments of many different kinds of breast cancer.
The End of Breast Cancer
A Virus and the Hope for a Vaccine
Kathleen T. Ruddy
A breast cancer surgeon and cutting edge researcher provides a look into the history of breast cancer research and discusses the theories, findings and breakthroughs that help guide the scientists racing to find the cause and a cure.
Five Lessons I Didn’t Learn From Breast Cancer (And One Big One I Did)
Shelley Lewis
Interweaving her own experiences with those of other breast cancer survivors, the author provides a look at what having breast cancer means, especially when the entire ordeal does not offer a glimpse of the ultimate meaning of life or an opportunity for self-improvement, but only a reinforcement of hard-won life lessons she had already learned.
Intimacy After Breast Cancer
Dealing With Your Body, Relationships and Sex
Gina M. Maisano
Love and intimacy do not have to end because of breast cancer. In ‘Intimacy after Breast Cancer’, Gina uses expert advice, scientific research, and firsthand experience to help you make the difficult transition from cancer patient to vibrant, self-confident woman.
Just Get Me Through This
Deborah A. Cohen
You Can Get Through This. Your doctor told you it was breast cancer. So now what?! You’ll need plenty of essential advice—the kind that only comes from someone who’s been there. In Just Get Me Through This! Deborah A. Cohen and Robert M. Gelfand, M.D. help you deal with all the ups and downs of the breast cancer experience.
The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book
Lynn C. Hartmann, Charles L. Loprinzi
The experts from a trusted medical facility cover everything one needs to know about breast cancer—including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, medication, alternative remedies, coping mechanisms, communicating with children and more—in a book with helpful full-color illustrations and diagrams
Pandora’s DNA
Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree
Lizzie Stark
Uses the author’s family experience to explore the human aspect of mutations on the BRCA gene, known as the “breast cancer” gene, discussing the decision of many patients to have preventative masectomies after testing positive for the mutation.
Radical
The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
Kate Pickert
A journalism professor, former Time health-care writer and breast cancer survivor identifies the differences between popular conceptions and patient realities, sharing insight into breast cancer’s high occurrence rates and role in shaping America’s medical culture.
The Silver Lining
A Supportive and Insightful Guide to Breast Cancer
Hollye Jacobs
The award-winning blogger for TheSilverPen.com draws on her experiences as both a nurse and a patient with breast cancer to share positive insights about the disease’s diagnosis, treatments, side effects and recovery.
So Much to Be Done
The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
Barbara Brenner
Chronicles the fifteen years the author was executive director of Breast Cancer Action, gives her political insights on the movement, and reflects on dying and living after her 2011 ALS diagnosis.
Stand by Her
A Breast Cancer Guide for Men
John W. Anderson
Provides practical advice and inspirational messages for men to help them lend support to women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Straight Talk About Breast Cancer
From Diagnosis to Recovery
Suzanne W. Braddock
This medical handbook serves as an accessible resource for answering the questions of women with breast cancer as well as easing the concerns of their spouses and family members. Drawing on the personal experiences of a breast-cancer survivor and the professional expertise of breast-cancer specialists, this guide outlines the various treatment options for cancer patients—including lumpectomy and mastectomy surgeries, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy—both in terms of how they work and the toll they take on a patient’s life
Twisting Fate
My Journey With Brca–From Breast Cancer Doctor to Patient and Back
Pamela N. Munster
A forefront oncologist shares the story of her own battle with breast cancer and how it transformed her perspectives as a doctor, describing her research team’s groundbreaking work on the BRCA gene and how to live with its mutations.
Biography and Memoir
Better
How I Let Go of Control, Held on to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour
Amy Robach
A “Good Morning America” anchor retraces the twelve months following her breast cancer diagnosis, revealing details about her treatment and its impact on her work life and family life and her emotional journey from initial shock to resilience, bravery, and hope.
The Bright Hour
A Memoir of Living and Dying
Nina Riggs
Discussing motherhood, marriage, friendship, and the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author, who has been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, explores what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time.
Everybody’s Got Something
Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers
The beloved Good Morning America anchor shares the incredible journey that’s been her life so far and the lessons she learned along the way as she battled breast cancer and a rare blood disorder and dealt with the death of her mother.
Had I Known
A Memoir of Survival
Joan Lunden
The former Good Morning America host speaks candidly about her battle against breast cancer, sharing insights into how it shaped her perspectives as a woman, family member and awareness advocate.
Hoda
How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee
Hoda Kotb
A co-anchor on the Today show shares her life story, from growing up with immigrant Egyptian parents to surviving breast cancer to the colorful experience of being part of a top-rated morning show, in a book with full-color photos.
Promise Me
How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer
Nancy G. Brinker, Joni Rodgers
The founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure shares the inspirational story of her late sister’s battle with breast cancer and the author’s contributions to establishing one of the world’s most influential health advocacy organizations.