Whether you are facing a cancer diagnosis and the challenges of treatment, or wish to prevent the disease if you’re at high risk, this book brings you the most accurate, reliable and up-to-date information available.

You’ll discover a story rich in hope, with accounts of women who’ve successfully confronted this difficult disease.

The knowledge you’ll gain will help you be a more informed patient—in communicating with your doctor, in selecting among treatment options. In this thorough book, Mayo brings you critical knowledge in many key facets of breast cancer.

• Prevention—What can you do to decrease your risk of getting breast cancer? While there’s still no guaranteed way to prevent it, several lifestyle factors can be modified to reduce your risk, especially if you are in a high-risk category.
• Treatment—After diagnosis comes a flurry of questions: "Now what?" "How do I deal with this?" "Do I have options?" "What’s my prognosis?" The good news is that breast cancer is now considered a highly treatable disease with good results. Survival rates keep increasing. The book reviews the full range of treatment options, and the pros and cons of each.
• Care and Coping—Life goes on after diagnosis. Our doctors share their best options for dealing with feelings and emotions ... for coping with treatment side effects ... for women who want to consider complementary therapies. A separate chapter offers helpful guidance to the patient’s partner.
• Living With Hope—It bears repeating: Breast cancer is highly treatable. You have every reason to live with hope. This book offers key support for every woman.

The book is a tribute to many, especially the extraordinary women who’ve taught us about breast cancer. Each has added to our knowledge of the disease, and advanced your ability to respond to any diagnosis or risk.

Many prostate problems — even cancer — can now be easily treated. Thanks to medical advances and important new discoveries at Mayo Clinic and other leading medical centers, we can share great news with Mayo Clinic Essential Guide to Prostate Health.

This book is based on advice that Mayo Clinic doctors share every day in caring for their patients. In this book you will find:

· When to get a prostate checkup, and what to expect

· Our latest recommendations on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, with detailed information on normal PSA levels by age

· How doctors diagnose and treat an enlarged prostate, including new information on the two types of drugs currently used to significantly reduce symptoms of prostate enlargement

· New guidance on managing incontinence and impotence, two common side effects of prostate treatment

· Current medical options for treating advanced prostate cancer

· New advances that mean better prostate cancer survival rates

· What to expect after prostate surgery, including information on recovery time and getting on with life

· Medical assessments of popular alternative therapies, plus more

Mayo Clinic Essential Guide to Prostate Health is an easy-to-read yet comprehensive guide to understanding, treating and living with prostate disease. It’s just the kind of thorough book you would expect from a world leader in medicine — Mayo Clinic.

In this brave book, Dr. Montori channels George Orwell to expose the corruption — and absurdity — of health care. Filled with compassionate and clear-eyed observations, Why we Revolt will leave you fired up, no matter what side of the gurney you are on – Julia Belluz, senior health correspondent at Vox.com.

We revolt because our health – our very lives – matter. Why We Revolt does not serve as a blueprint but as an inspiration for patients and clinicians who are ready to pry open the idea of "healthcare" and make it about actual health and care. This book is a necessary catalyst for conversations that will revolutionize patient care – Kerri Sparling, diabetes patient advocate and creator of SixUntilMe.com.

This marvelously optimistic book is an urgent and cogent call to action that is firmly rooted in direct experience of the harms inflicted, not only on patients but also on those who try to care for them, by the industrialization of contemporary healthcare – Iona Heath, medical doctor and writer, former president of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

This profoundly humanistic examination of what has gone wrong in medicine has the diagnosis just right. This book is for everyone who will ever be a patient, for every health professional, and for every administrator and policy-maker – Gordon Guyatt, physician and researcher, father of evidence-based medicine.