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1.Screening for Breast Cancer
PDQ summary on breast cancer screening, with information on breast cancer and what makes it more likely to occur (risk factors), breast cancer screening methods, and current evidence about the effectiveness of screening tests
URL:http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/srchcgi.exe?DBID=pdq&TYPE=search&SFMT=pdq_statement/1/0/0&Z208=208_04723P
2.Prevention of Breast Cancer
Information on breast cancer prevention methods, and current facts about which people or groups of people would most likely be helped by following breast cancer prevention methods
URL:http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/srchcgi.exe?DBID=pdq&TYPE=search&SFMT=pdq_statement/1/0/0&Z208=208_04730P
3.Breast cancer
National Cancer Institute's summary of up-to-date information on breast cancer and its prevention, detection, treatment, and supportive care
URL:http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/srchcgi.exe?TYPE=search&EXPR=[PDQID]208/00013&DBID=pdq&SFMT=pdq_statement/1/0/0&PASSTHRU=:i
4.NCI Publication - What You Need To Know About Breast Cancer
Comprehensive 15-page booklet on Breast Cancer: causes, types, risk factors, early detection, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments and their side-effects, rehabilitation, followup care, and a glossary of related terms.
URL:http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/wyntk_pubs/breast.htm
5.Breast Cancer Bone Marrow Q & A
Background information and latest findings on high-dose chemotherapy with bone marrow or stem cell transplants for Breast Cancer
URL:http://cancertrials.nci.nih.gov/NCI_CANCER_TRIALS/zones/TrialInfo/News/brca/qaindex.html
6.UVA - Breast Cancer - Patient Information
Background, risk factors, benign breast care, breast cancer care, and research initiatives.
URL:http://hsc.virginia.edu/medicine/clinical/surgery/breastcancer.html
7.Cancer Clinical Services Quality Assurance Project
The QAP website provides A Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment. The booklet is intended to help a woman become an informed partner in making choices with her health care team.
URL:http://qap.sdsu.edu/guide.html
8.Mammograms - Not just once, but for a lifetime
Easy-to-read, straightforward information on mammograms
URL:http://rex.nci.nih.gov/MAMMOG_WEB/PUBS_POSTERS/EASY_TO_READ/EASY_TO_READ.html
9.Understanding Breast Changes - a health guide for all women
Describes screening for the early detection of breast cancer, explains the various types of breast changes that women experience, and outlines methods that doctors use to distinguish between benign (noncancerous) changes and cancer
URL:http://rex.nci.nih.gov/MAMMOG_WEB/PUBS_POSTERS/UNDRSTNDNG/UNDER_STANDING_CHANGE.html
10.Breast Cancer Risk Factors
This online publication provides international breast cancer incidence and mortality rates in a series of charts and graphs.
URL:http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface/raterisk/risks120.html
11.Inflammatory Breast Cancer - IBC - Brochure
This brochure describes the unique symptoms of Inflammatory Breast Cancer - IBC - which is the deadliest and rarest of breast cancers.
URL:http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/ibcmemorial/ibc.brochure.html#brochures
12.Understanding Cancer of the Breast
Online booklet from support group CancerBACUP addressing causes and treatments of breast cancer.
URL:http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/info/breast.htm
13.Breast Cancer
Cancer fact sheet describing breast cancer and how it can be detected.
URL:http://www.ricancercouncil.org/facts/brefacts.htm
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