Waking Up/Fighting Back
Subtitle: The Politics of Breast Cancer
Contributors: Jennifer Josephy (Editor)
Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T)
Published: April 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780316035323
Subjects: Breast Cancer; Medical; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; General; Health Care Delivery; Women's Health - Breast Care; Oncology; Breast; Cancer; Social aspects; United States
Description: The author discusses: the latest scientific and medical findings, the problems still unresolved, the causes of breast cancer, hormonal factors, environmental hazards, smoking, heredity and the newly discovered breast cancer gene, and possible preventative measures.