By
Yashar Hirshaut, MD, FACP
Peter I. Pressman, MD, FACS
This lucid step-by-step guide has established itself as the indispensable book women need to make informed decisions about the care that is right for them.
Breast cancer will strike one out of every eight women in the United States. From the moment the disease is suspected, women are called upon to make numerous choices under intense stress, and none of them should go it alone. The completely revised fifth edition of this invaluable handbook, long praised for helping women manage ever stage of treatment and recovery, includes the many modifications and advances in the rapidly changing field of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Yashar Hirshaut is a medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer. A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he completed his oncology training at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. From 1970 to 1986 he served as an attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering on the Clinical Immunology Service and as associate professor of medicine at the Cornell University Medical College. He was also head of the Laboratory for Immunodiagonsis at Sloan-Kettering. In addition to being in private practice, he is currently associate clinical professor of medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and an attending physician at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and Beth Israel and Lenox Hill Hospitals in New York City. Dr. Hirshaut was Editor-in-Chief of the professional journal Cancer Investigation from 1981 to 2006. He is chairman of the Israel Cancer Research Fund, which provides peer-reviewed funding for basic cancer research.
Peter I. Pressman is a surgical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of breast cancer. A graduate of Columbia College and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he trained at Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia Division of Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Dr. Pressman has been in private practice in New York for more than thirty-five years and is Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Director of the Genetics Risk Assessment Program at the Breast Center. He was attending surgeon at Beath Israel Medical Center and Lenox Hill Hospital. He has been consultant to the Guttman Breast Diagnostic Institute and president of the New York Metropolitan Breast Cancer Group, as well as a member of the Board of Directors (New York City division) and the Breast Cancer Detection and Treatment Subcommittee (national) of the American Cancer Society. He has published widely in the medical literature and has been named by American Health, Good Housekeeping, New York, and Town and Country magazines as among the best breast cancer doctors in New York City and in the nation.
“A definitive guidebook… in this highly regarded source, the authors— a medical oncologist and a surgical oncologist— provide both the support and every scrap of the information a woman needs to get the right treatment form the right doctor.” — New York Times
“Both timely and current…[It] discusses the most common cancer in women in a precise, clear, and positive way, providing essential information in a warm, supportive fashion in a readable and understandable format.” — Journal of the National Cancer Institute
“These experts demystify breast cancer in understandable and compassionate terms… Should help hundreds of thousands of women.” — James F. Holland, MD, Distinguished Professor of Neoplastic Diseases, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
“Comprehensive, up-to-date, and highly detailed… From selecting the best doctors to describing procedures and treatments, the authors answer all possible questions in a calm, rational manner… Highly recommended.” — Library Journal