Breast Cancer: A History of Breast Cancer Treatment Told through Women’s Stories

Title: Breast Cancer: A History of Breast Cancer Treatment Told through Women’s Stories
Author(s) David M. Mastrianni, MD

“Breast cancer . . . what’s her story?”

A diagnosis of breast cancer thrusts one out of every eight women and their loved ones into a world of tests and treatments, unfamiliar acronyms and unpronounceable medications, and membership in a club they never asked to join.

So we ask this question—“What’s her story?”—about women who are fighting this disease. We ask it about the women we love, our friends, and our neighbors. And it’s the key question nurses and doctors ask about their patients. We ask this question so we can help, cope, and understand.

Medical oncologist David Mastrianni, MD, has heard the stories of hundreds of ordinary women in extraordinary fights against this all-too-common cancer. In Breast Cancer: A History of Breast Cancer Treatment Told through Women’s Stories, he shares the unvarnished reality of what it’s like to have breast cancer through the stories of six patients. Woven throughout is the fascinating cultural and scientific history of breast cancer treatment that will bring encouragement, comfort, and understanding to anyone whose life is touched by this disease. Profits from this book support basic science research in cancer.

“These women’s stories become a course in breast cancer medical science and history taught within lives of courage and endurance. There is something in this book for everyone: patients, families, and those in science or medicine. And we are pleased this book supports the basic science that underlies all our advances.”
—Daniel G. Tenen, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Published by: David M Mastrianni, MD, PLLC
ISBN13: 978-1734689709