A Book to Recommend to Breast Cancer Patients: The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book

The Mayo Clinic in the United States is among the world's top medical centers today; one could say that Mayo's medical education and research represent the pinnacle of modern medicine. In recent years, wealthy patients from China have increasingly traveled to the Mayo Clinic for treatment.

Written with dedication by medical experts at the Mayo Clinic, The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book: Your Guide to Prevention, Treatment, and Care (The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book) offers a systematic yet concise introduction to the full spectrum of knowledge about breast cancer.

Professor Xu Binghe, chair of the Breast Cancer Committee of the China Anti-Cancer Association, wrote the preface for this book and recommended it. After reading The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book cover to cover, readers can understand how breast tumors arise and develop, and can also appreciate, under current medical conditions, what treatment options are available to breast cancer patients along with the pros and cons of each.

Breast cancer patients are also prone to concurrent ovarian cancer and uterine cancer, and The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book covers these as well, giving patients professional guidance for preventing and detecting a second cancer early. The book also describes strategies for managing the various complications breast cancer patients encounter during treatment and the side effects of the various regimens, all of which are highly practical.

The book includes many breast cancer patients speaking in their own voices, describing the troubles they faced after diagnosis and how they resolved them. Having cancer is misfortune, but international medical research on breast cancer keeps advancing. The five-year survival rate for breast cancer in the United States has risen from under 70% in the past to over 90% today. How did Americans achieve this? The book covers it in detail.

Cancer has far-reaching effects on the whole family. The relevant chapters of The Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Book, prepared by the Mayo Clinic, specifically address survivorship after cancer and how patients' partners can help them. Related chapters also discuss the role of alternative therapies beyond standard treatment and how to choose among them, which is also of great practical value.

In short, this is a comprehensively oriented guide to fighting breast cancer, well worth recommending to the broad community of breast cancer patients and to medical workers who study breast cancer treatment. Patients who have just been diagnosed with breast cancer especially need to read this guide, so as not to seek treatment blindly in a panic.