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breast surgery --- cardiovascular surgery --- colon and rectal surgery --- dentistry and oral surgery --- endocrine surgery --- neurosurgery --- Surgery --- Chirurgie --- Surgery. --- Surgery, Primitive --- Medicine

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Vividly showcasing diverse voices and experiences, this book illuminates an all-too-common experience by exploring how women respond to a diagnosis of breast cancer. Drawing from interviews in which women describe their journeys from diagnosis through treatment and recovery, Julia A. Ericksen explores topics ranging from women's trust in their doctors to their feelings about appearance and sexuality. She includes the experiences of women who do not put their faith in traditional medicine as well as those who do, and she takes a look at the long-term consequences of this disease. What emerges from her powerful and often moving account is a compelling picture of how cultural messages about breast cancer shape women's ideas about their illness, how breast cancer affects their relationships with friends and family, why some of them become activists, and more. Ericksen, herself a breast cancer survivor, has written an accessible book that reveals much about the ways in which we narrate our illnesses and about how these narratives shape the paths we travel once diagnosed.

Breast --- Breasts --- Chest --- Large-breasted women --- Cancer --- Psychological aspects. --- Patients --- Breast - Cancer - Psychological aspects. --- appearance. --- breast cancer activism. --- breast cancer education. --- breast cancer support. --- breast cancer survivor. --- breast cancer. --- breast surgery. --- cancer activism. --- cancer recovery. --- cancer treatment. --- cancer. --- cultural studies. --- diagnosis. --- disease. --- doctors orders. --- doctors. --- dying. --- ethnography. --- faith. --- gender studies. --- illness. --- medicine. --- micro sociology. --- patients and doctors. --- personal experience. --- personal illness. --- politics. --- sexuality. --- sociology. --- treatment. --- women and cancer. --- women.

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Breast cancer is acknowledged as an international priority in healthcare. It is currently the most common cancer in women worldwide, with demographic trends indicating a continuous increase in incidence. Over the years, increasing efforts and resources have been devoted to the search for a systematic and optimized strategy in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Today, the Breast Unit model is considered the gold standard in order to ensure optimal patient-centered and research-based clinical services through multidisciplinary and integrated management.Surgical treatment has gradually evolved toward less aggressive approaches with the adoption of new therapeutic strategies. The evolution of evidence-based guidelines in such leading disciplines as radiation and medical oncology has led to a steady improvement in survival rates. This Special Issue will highlight innovations in the integrated management of breast cancer, their potential advantages, and the many open issues that still need to be properly defined and addressed.

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