The first breast problem I had turned out to be a cyst, and this book gave me all the information I needed to prepare myself and understand the procedures. Four years later I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I don't know how I could have gotten through everything without it. If you have a problem, do yourself a favor and buy this book. It is worth ten times the price.

I sent this as a gift to my sister-in-law, who recently was diagnosised with breast cancer. She has already lost her mom and sister, to this dreaded disease. She was pleased to get it, as it will help her make decisions, and teach about the best treatments.

My husband and I both read Susan Love's outstanding book on breast cancer. It gave us answers in a language that we could understand and information we could not find anywhere else. An absolute must for any woman who has or thinks they have a problem with breast cancer.

This book was amazingly helpful. I read through the parts that pertained to me and found it very helpful. I would recommend it to anyone who is diagnosed with breast cancer. The information covered from diagnosed, surgery, treatment after, medications, and helpful hints on how to deal with each stage. A must book for breast cancer victims.

Truly the bible of information for any woman diagnosed with breast cancer. More information than, hopefully, you'll ever need while going through this.
Clear explanations aimed at the lay person to help them navigate through the breast cancer experience.
This Doctor left no stone unturned and no question unanswered. Easy cross-reference, some website references, statistical figures, drawings, and perfectly clear explanations.
This book is a MUST for anyone who has, or knows of someone who has, breast cancer.

I was recommended this book by my breast surgeon after she found a lump on my annual mammogram. It explained things very clearly and helped me to make wise choices regarding my care. Two thumbs up to Dr.Love

This book contains a wealth of important information to assist anyone facing breast cancer and trying to decide a course of treatment for themselves. It contains systematic soup to nuts from various treatments, reconstruction, recovery. However, other resources should also be utilized when ultimately making decisions on treatment and prevention.

I bought this book for my sister who underwent breast cancer and reconstruction surgery. She found it so helpful, I bought another copy recently for a high school friend who was just diagnosed with breast cancer. It provides the reader with the tools to understand and be able to ask the right questions, to know better what courses of treatment are available and to understand what each symptom, test, and treatment mean and will be like. It helps to quell fear and replace that fear with knowledge so that you are more confident moving ahead, asking intelligent questions and making intelligent decisions.

This is an excellent book expecially if you are having breast problems. I've given it as a gift to two friends who were recently diagnosed with breast cancer. They have read the book cover to cover and are grateful for the knowledge and wisdom gained concerning their personal wellbeing.

It is a great book and gives you a lot of information. Sometimes too much info.

This is the most readable and complete book on the subject. It is especially recommended for anyone dealing with breast cancer. It provides up-to-date info in an understandable manner. Also see the web site.

I bought this book for a good friend of mine who was recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer. The book was suggested to me by my mother who just underwent a double mastectomy. My friend is very thankful for this book. She told me it has helped tremendously with questions she has about her condition and treatment options.

So while I haven't personally read this book, I would defiantly recommend it to anyone who has the tragedy of being diagnosed with breast cancer.

This was recommended to me by a co-worker of a friend. I now recommended it to a anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or have a loved one who has. Dr. Susan Love explains things fully and in a very easy to understand manner. No matter how good of a support team of doctors you have, there are going to be questions that come up when you're not in a doctors office. Better yet, by reviewing the book, you'll think of things you SHOULD ask. It helped me both prior to my surgery, immediately after my surgery and will continue to be a wonderful reference book as 'things' come up.

This was recommended to me by a co-worker of a friend. I now recommended it to a anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or have a loved one who has. Dr. Susan Love explains things fully and in a very easy to understand manner. No matter how good of a support team of doctors you have, there are going to be questions that come up when you're not in a doctors office. Better yet, by reviewing the book, you'll think of things you SHOULD ask. It helped me both prior to my surgery, immediately after my surgery and will continue to be a wonderful reference book as 'things' come up.

Dr. Love's book should be standard issue for all women.

I purchased this book for my best friend when she was newly diagnosed with breast cancer. She read it then and found answers to so many of her questions. She still uses it 4 months into chemo as a reference tool. She still will tell me this is one of the best books that I purchased for her.

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book is an excellent resource for anyone facing the possibility of breast cancer or a loved one's diagnosis. Even if you've read a prior edition, so much has advanced in the field of treatment and options that it is worthwhile to get the newest edition. The book helps the reader to have a better understanding of all different aspects of breat problems, diagnosis, and treatment options. It's a must read before you go to a Dr. as well as after to help one better understand it all. It's a book you'll keep picking up again and again.

This is a good book for the details. I would also recommend Breast Cancer for Dummies. Even though I didn't like the title, I found it to be down to earth, easy to understand and good with useful information.

This is a most concise, well written, easy to understand book on a very difficult subject. You don't need to read it all to zero in on your particular problem. It was an immense help in dealing with my breast diagnosis, and gave me the ability to dialogue with my doctors. A thousand thanks to Dr. Susan Love.

I purchased this book to help my sister working as a part-time interpreter do a better job. I like it and my sister appreciated it, although she did not read it. She lives many thousand miles from me, so I explained the main points to her through the phone. I think every woman should and must read the book. The style is clear, but the book is rather too long for a common person. I wish every medical book had a simple and clear style like this one.

This is an excellent resource. 4th edition is superior to the 3rd edition. A wonderful book for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer. Everything you want to know and MORE!

Excellent book, covering all aspects of breast cancer. Dr. Love is considered the top authority on breast cancer. Her style of writing is interesting as well as informative. It is as if she is talking personally to you.

This book has been a lifesaver for me. I had breast cancer a year ago and if I had a question, I knew I could turn to the index and find the page that would have my answers. It put me at ease most of the time through a very scary experience. I have bought this book for a friend who just found out that she has breast cancer. She, too, have enjoyed the peace this book gives. It is very informative and interesting. I recommend this book to every lady who is told that she has, the scary words, "breast cancer".

This book has been a lifesaver for me. I had breast cancer a year ago and if I had a question, I knew I could turn to the index and find the page that would have my answers. It put me at ease most of the time through a very scary experience. I have bought this book for a friend who just found out that she has breast cancer. She, too, have enjoyed the peace this book gives. It is very informative and interesting. I recommend this book to every lady who is told that she has, the scary words, "breast cancer".

I bought this book for a relative who had breast cancer. This book helped her refine her questions about treatment as she met with physicians. It also gave her a much needed information about breast cancer. It was especially helpful in being very clear about what was known for sure about the disease and treatment and what was still unclear. I consider this book a must for anyone with breast cancer or with a family member or friend with breast cancer.

If I could give Dr. Love's invaluable resource book more than 5 stars, I would. A lot of practical information is presented in a fairly objective, reader-friendly format. When she has an opinion, Dr. Love identifies it as such. I read the ...Breast Book before I made a decision on my course of treatment, and I find myself re-reading sections to better understand my whole experience. The book was recommended to me by several friends who are breast cancer survivors, and I have already recommended it to an acquaintance who needed to understand her cancer diagnosis in order to decide what treatment she would pursue. Readers may discard other books after reading them, but this is the one they will keep coming back to until the next edition comes out. Very helpful!

This book is a "must have" for all of us facing that horrible disease. It doesn't matter if you are just newly diagnosed or have had it for some time. Dr. Love writes in easly to understand terminology and the info is really up to date. The drawings do a lot in helping to understand just what she is talking about.

This book is a must have for any woman who may be considering a breast enhancement or reduction, who may be a new mother who wants to nurse, who has ever had a disturbing mammogram or biopsy; or who has been diagnosed with early to late breast cancer. It is thoroughtly researched and updated on a regular basis to include the latest research and information. I have given this book as a gift to friends and female relatives, who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, as a means to increase their knowledge and to understand what actions are available to them as they work through the maze of treatment and decisions that they must face. It was the best resource I found to start the process of educating myself about my own breast cancer. My breast cancer surgeon recommended it to me. I am now on my 2nd update.

This is probably the most comprehensive source of information on breast cancer and other breast issues that most of us will ever find, and it manages to avoid the cloying "good girl" kitch of those horrid pink websites. For those reasons, it is the best place to start educating yourself. Buy it.

BUT, be aware that it has a few major faults. Dr. Love spends a great deal of time pointing out the side effects of the three major treatments: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Many of these side effects are not temporary or fixable, but are permanent and life threatening in themselves. This is especially valuable knowledge since most doctors and those pink websites downplay or totally ignore disabling and potentially fatal problems such as lymphedema, secondary cancers and heart failure which can result from these standard treatments. I strongly suspect that all the attention paid to hair loss (which will grown back in, for crying out loud) is there to distract potential patients from the real problems.

Dr. Love also lays bare the dismal statistics on the efficacy of chemotherapy given to non-metastatic women (2-9% of women are actually helped - an eye opening figure to most of us who probably thought chemo "saved" 50 or 60 women per hundred). These are not statistics that the pink groups or your oncologist are eager to have you know.

However, after spending pages and pages warning us that chemo is dangerous and not especially effective, she then just says "Oh, but go ahead and have it." Why? After imparting so much frightening information, I'm not following her thought process as to why chemo is a good deal for non-metastatic women, and I think she owes her readers a fuller explanation of why she, and the rest of the American medical community, have come to this conclusion.

In addition, although she loves statistics (and so do I), she too often lapses into anecdotes that are frightening or bizarre or in other ways not very helpful. She also, at very critical times, as in discussing heart damage from radiation and chemotherapy, abandons statistics altogether and just says "seldom" or "infrequently". Well, what does that mean? 2-9% of women helped qualifies as "seldom" in my mind, yet to Dr. Love those are great statistics to gamble on and accept chemo.

Lastly, remember that Dr. Love is still a doctor, she is not your best gal pal, and as such, has a very different way of assessing the treatment plans. One of the most chilling anecdotes in the book is when she refers to a (non-metastatic) patient of hers who underwent chemo (2-9% efficacy rate) and ended up needing a heart transplant thanks to Adriamycin. Dr. Love just shrugs it off with, well at least she was alive to need the heart transplant, with no concern for the quality of life this woman was left with.

In sum, there is much good information here, but you will need to search for some specific answers elsewhere. And the knowledge she does give you may make it harder, not easier, to make decisions. But knowledge is always harder than trusting ignorance.

The book is very informative but at time of need when diagnosed with breast cancer only serve to kill hope and positive thoughts when both are very much needed. It did serve well to reduce stress when one day I had a bad day and week by ripping it apart. In that instance, it was the best money I ever spent!

I am a physicist (not a physician) and know little about the field of medicine. When my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age, I wanted to understand all about the disease both for aiding in her treatment decisions and for educating my 4 year old daughter, who is now at risk.

This book includes the standard "How the breast works", "Diagnosing cancer", "Treatment of cancer" chapters to guide people through the shock and emotional decision making required before surgery and help make decisions regarding chemo and radiation therapies. These are invaluable resources for anyone who wants more understanding than what is provided through a chat with their surgeon or oncologist or the thin pamphlets received at the hospital.

The real value of this book, however, that sets it apart for all others, are the deep and rich chapters about other aspects of the breast and cancer. In particular, this book has a chapter on breast augmentation, which was recommended to us after a mastectomy; a chapter on how cancer occurs on a genetic DNA level; a chapter on cancer prevention for my daughter; and a chapter on clinical trials - what they are, which might you choose, and how should you evaluate them.

In short, this book has been valuable resource in making short term treatment decisions and looks to be a valuable resource in future years. I eagerly await the 4th edition, though I don't know when or if it is coming.

I definitely agree with the many readers regarding this book that it is absolutely the authorative source book on the subject of breast cancer. The author describes virtually every detail incl. the emotional aspects from prevention to diagnosis and through the healing process. I picked up a copy of this extensive book when one of my friends was diagnosed with breast cancer to be able to better relate to her and to understand what she's going through and I must say it is a very interesting read. Another excellent book on the subject that is really encouraging and helpful and I think is also a "Must-Read" is "Breast Cancer Be-Attitudes" by breast-cancer survior Sylvia Baker.

I bought this book because it seemed like a sensible thing to have. A day after it arrived from Amazon, a friend of mine had a lump detected on a mammogram. Four weeks later, she had a mastectomy. Actually I never read the book. I gave it to her before I had a chance. She thanks me for it every time she sees me. She said she had gathered a lot of info, but this book was the most informative and systematic of anything she'd read. She brought it with her to every appointment with her doctors. "I don't know how I could have dealt with this without it." So I'm now about to order a second copy as it's been only eight weeks since the first one arrived. I hope this copy sees much less use.