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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

It always a good time to learn about breast health, early detection. This booklist consists of many books available to educate on prevention or combating this disease.

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  • “Smith, a medical doctor with a family history of [breast cancer], gives the basics about the condition and the side effects of therapy and then addresses both controllable and uncontrollable risk factors, making good use of numbers . . . also…
    Book, 2025Garden City Park, NY : Square One Publishers, [2025] — 616.9944 Smith.P
  • “Ali Rogin has written a timely and critically important book. It is also very personal. Through compelling interviews with thirty truly amazing women, coupled with her own experience, she has told the story of breast cancer—and how to beat it—in a…
    Book, 2020[New York] : Diversion Books, [2020] — 616.9944 Rogin.A
  • The Black Woman's Breast Cancer Survival Guide

    Understanding and Healing in the Face of a Nationwide Crisis

    Holloway, Cheryl D.,
    “An excellent, well-written work for all black women and all health-care professionals who wish to understand better the challenges facing this community.” ―Library Journal, Starred Review
    Book, 2017Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017] — 616.9944 Hollo.C
  • The New Generation Breast Cancer Book

    How to Navigate Your Diagnosis and Treatment Options--and Remain Optimistic--in An Age of Information Overload

    Port, Elisa,
    “The New Generation Breast Cancer Book helps you sort through all the information you’ve gathered, clarify the terminology, consider the options, and make the right decisions for your unique case.”—Edie Falco
    Book, 2015New York : Ballantine Books, [2015] — 616.9944 Port.E
  • Radical

    the Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America

    Pickert, Kate,
    "A thoroughly researched and compassionate account of a disease that strikes one in eight American women"―Megan O'Neill Melle, Parade
    Book, 2019New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2019. — 616.9944 Picke.K
  • Talking to My Tatas

    All You Need to Know From a Breast Cancer Researcher and Survivor

    Brantley-Sieders, Dana,
    “Reading Talking to My Tatas is a little like discovering you have a wise and funny friend who is an expert on breasts and breast cancer and is willing to talk through your worries anytime of the night or day. This is the book I wish existed when I…
    Book, 2022Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022] — 616.9944 Brant.D
  • Just Diagnosed

    Breast Cancer : What to Expect, What to Know, What to Do Next

    Karole, Arlene M.,
    This book fills an important void in consumer health literature. It takes the science of the breast cancer diagnosis and treatment out of the medical journals and streamlines it, making it accessible and understandable to everyday patients and their…
    Book, 2021Franklin, Tennessee : Clovercroft Publishing, [2021] — 616.9944 Karol.A
  • Flat

    Reclaiming My Body From Breast Cancer

    Guthrie, Catherine,
    “Flat is as entertaining as it is honest and forthright about a subject that has been steeped in pink and sentimentality for far too long. Flat is, quite simply, a darn good read.” —Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2018] — 616.9944 Guthr.C
  • The Complete Guide to Breast Reconstruction

    Choosing the Best Options After Your Mastectomy

    Steligo, Kathy,
    A guiding light in your journey to wellness, this is the definitive work on breast reconstruction for those facing mastectomy. Twenty years after the book's first edition, countless readers have been empowered by the voice in its pages, which speaks…
    Book, 2023Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 616.9944 Steli.K
  • Life Reconstructed

    Navigating the World of Mastectomies and Breast Reconstruction

    Harms, Kim,
    Everyone needs to read this book to educate themselves; not just those who receive a cancer diagnosis . . . EVERYONE! Cancer touches us all in some way. Kim Harms does an excellent job of informing, educating, and offering tips, techniques, and…
    Book, 2021Sangus, Calif. : Familius, 2021. — 616.9944 Harms.K
  • "The title people turn to with questions about breast health as well as disease. This latest iteration...addresses metastatic breast cancer and the longer survival rates of its sufferers, making breast cancer more and more like a chronic…
    Book, 2023New York : Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books, 2023. — 618.19 Love.S
  • The Breast Cancer Cookbook

    Over 100 Easy Recipes to Nourish and Boost Health During and After Treatment

    Keshtgar, M. R. S. (Mohammad R. S.), 1962-
    Mohammed Keshtgar, BSc, MBBS, FRCSI, FRCS (Gen), PhD, is a surgical Oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer. Believing that diet and lifestyle are significant risk factors in the development and progression of breast cancer, he has…
    Book, 2016[London] : Quadrille Publishing Limited, 2016. — 641.5631 Kesht.M