Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

Susan M. Love

Addison-Wesley, 1995 - Social Science - 627 pages

Women all over the country and the doctors and nurses who care for them have established Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book as the standard reference on its subject. Dr. Love has now revised her book to reflect every new development in breast care, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and research. Every chapter has been brought up to date, including new information on silicone implants, imaging techniques, genetics, risk factors and prevention, hormone use, bone marrow transplants, tamoxifen, immediate reconstruction, and treatment for metastatic breast cancer.

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User Review  - KinnicChick - LibraryThing

There aren't many reviews out here for this book right now (possibly because the fifth edition is so new?). Maybe because of the scope of the subject (the book has over 700 pages). I won't try to go ...

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User Review  - ms.c.earthsci - LibraryThing

Absolutely calming and no-nonsense approach to breast cancer. Every woman or family battling breast cancer should have this book on their shelf to read after a diagnosis and really understand what the doctors are saying.

Contents

• The Breast and Its Development: 3
• Getting Acquainted with Your Breasts: 19
• Breast Feeding: 26

About the author

Dr. Susan M. Love, is an author, teacher, surgeon, researcher and activist. She was born on February 9, 1948, and graduated from SUNY Downstate Medical School cum laude in 1974. She did her surgical residency at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and was Chief Resident in 1979. She went into private practice in general surgery, in 1980, and was the first woman surgeon on the staff of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Love joined the staff of the Dana Farber Breast Evaluation Clinic in 1982 and in 1988, she founded the Faulkner Breast Center in Boston, which was the first facility in the country to include a multidisciplinary all female staff. In 1992, she was recruited by UCLA to create a program that addresses all aspects of breast care and, in 1994; Revlon gave a gift that led to the establishment of the Revlon/UCLA Breast Center. Dr. Love left clinical practice, in 1996, to devote more time to basic research and her position as Adjunct Professor of Surgery at UCLA. Love has authored many journal articles and co-authored an Atlas of Surgical Techniques in Breast Surgery (1995). She has also written "Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book," which has been called one of the most important books in women's health in the past decade, and "Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book" (1997), which was on The New York Times bestseller list. Dr. Love founded the National Breast Cancer Coalition, which is a coalition of breast cancer advocacy groups created to involve breast cancer patients and their supporters as advocates for action, advances and change. In 1993, she help deliver 2 million signatures to President Clinton demanding a National Action Plan for Breast Cancer and now she is one of the co-chairs of the plan that brings together women, scientists, politicians and business people to stop the disease.

She Teaches Women Studies at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, and Writing at Emerson College.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book; Merloyd Lawrence book
• Author: Susan M. Love
• Illustrated by: Karen Lindsey
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1995
• ISBN: 020140835X, 9780201408355
• Length: 627 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies