Prophylactic Mastectomy: Insights from Women who Chose to Reduce Their Risk

by Andrea Farkas Patenaude

Book Overview

This book presents the candid stories of women at high hereditary risk of breast cancer who chose to have their breasts surgically removed while they were still healthy, rather than risk getting the cancer that had, in many cases, devastated others in their family.

Author Andrea Farkas Patenaude, a clinical psychologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has spent much time talking with women who decided to have risk-reducing or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313345163
• ISBN13: 9780313345166
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"