Silverstein, Alvin.

The breast cancer update / Alvin and Virginia Silverstein and Laura Silverstein Nunn. - Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2008. - 128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm. - Disease update .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123) and index.

Profile: breast cancer -- Cells gone wild -- Breast cancer through the ages -- What is breast cancer? -- Diagnosis and treatment -- Breast cancer survivors -- Preventing breast cancer -- Breast cancer and the future.

Explains the symptoms of breast canceer along with its history, management, and treatment; and provides personal accounts of those who have been affected by it.

ISBN: 0766027473 (hc.) 9780766027473 (hc.)

LCCN: 2006032821

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Breast--Cancer.

LC Class. No.: RC280.B8 / S4974 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 616.99/449