From the Book - Fully updated 2nd ed.
Introduction: Living Well Beyond Breast Cancer
Part 1. Treatment Over, On with Your Life
2. Support: Building a Network
Part 2. Additional Care Beyond Treatment
3. You and Your Doctors: Continuing Care
4. You and Other Health Care Professionals: Allied Care Team
5. Tests: Peer, Poke, Prod
6. After Mastectomy: Re-creating a Breast-With or Without Surgery
7. Ongoing Therapy: Hormonal, Herceptin, and Other Treatments
Part 3. Coping with Side Effects of Treatment
8. Fatigue and Loss of Energy
9. Understanding and Controlling Pain
10 Swelling (Lymphedema), Stiffness, and Skin Changes: Prevention and Management
11. Hair Loss and Nail Changes: Terrible but Temporary
12. Bone Health: Weaknesses and Strengths
13. Thinking and Remembering: Clearing the Fog and Sharpening Your Mind
14. Menopause and Growing Older: Hot and Cold, Wet and Dry
Part 4. Caring for Your New Self
15. Sleep: Restoration and Renewal
16. Your Immune System: Blows and Boosts
17. Sustenance: Nutrition and Supplements
18. Weight and Exercise: Gains and Losses
19. Intimacy, Sex, and Your Love Life
20. A Child in Your Future: Fertility, Pregnancy, Adoption
Part 5. Preventing and Managing Recurrence
21 Reducing the Risk of Breast Cancer
22. Recurrence: If Cancer Comes Back
23. Endings: Comfort, Closure, and the Circle of Life
Conclusion: Through Crisis Comes Opportunity
