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Adding to a patient's anxiety is input from well-meaning friends and family, with stories, worries, and opinions to share, sometimes without knowing the details of her particular case, when in reality breast cancer treatment has gone well beyond a \"one size fits all\" approach. Elisa Port, MD, FACS, chief of breast surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital and co-director of the Dubin Breast Center in Manhattan, offers an optimistic antidote to the ocean of Web data on screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Inside you'll discover\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e * the various scenarios when mammograms indicate the need for a biopsy\u003cbr\u003e * the questions to ask about surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and breast reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e * the important things to look for when deciding where to get care\u003cbr\u003e * the key to deciphering complicated pathology reports and avoiding confusion\u003cbr\u003e * the facts on genetic testing and the breast cancer genes: BRCA-1 and BRCA-2\u003cbr\u003e * the best resources and advice for those supporting someone with breast cancer\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From innovations in breast cancer screening and evaluating results to post-treatment medications and living as a breast cancer survivor, Dr. Elisa Port describes every possible test and every type of doctor visit, providing a comprehensive, empathetic guide that every newly diagnosed woman (and her family) will want to have at her side.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe New Generation Breast Cancer Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"One book you need . . . If you're considering your options for treatment or know someone who is, this step-by-step guide, \u003ci\u003eThe New Generation Breast Cancer Book,\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eInStyle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Elisa Port, M.D., is the doctor every patient deserves: brilliant and compassionate. 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Everyone should read this book for themselves, their mothers, grandmothers, daughters, and friends.\"\u003cb\u003e--Kara DioGuardi, Grammy-nominated songwriter, music executive, and Arthouse Entertainment co-founder\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The book is teeming with easy-to-understand medical explanations, tips, takeaways, and pro-and-con discussions of various courses of action. Port also includes two extremely useful appendices that respectively take on common myths and answer questions frequently asked by friends and family. 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Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in the United States. There are 300,000 women diagnosed in the United States each year, and of all cancers women get, one in three will be breast. Everyone has been touched by breast cancer in some way – as the more than 4 million breast cancer survivors in the US can attest. With misinformation flooding us from chat forums to wellness influencers, where can we turn for the truth?  The Breast Advice offers a trustworthy resource as you navigate assessing your risk of breast cancer, navigate screening and prevention, and treatment, dispelling myths and laying out the facts, including the latest innovations from AI to new screening techniques. Bringing in patients' wisdom together with her 25 years of experience as one of New York’s most celebrated specialists, Mount Sinai’s Chief of Breast Surgery Dr. Elisa Port has created a comprehensive guide to breast cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment. 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