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Now what? a patient's guide to recovery after mastectomy / Amy Curran Baker with MaryBeth Curran Brown and Linda Curran.

by Curran Baker, Amy.

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Demos Health, 2012.

616.99449 C976n

Mastectomy -- Patients -- Life skills guides.

Breast -- Cancer.

Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.

Alternate title:

Patient's guide to recorvery after mastectomy

xiv, 193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-184) and index.

pt. 1. Making the difficult decisions -- pt. 2. Now what? -- pt. 3. After-care, recovery, and compliations -- pt. 4. Voices -- pt. 5. Post-surgical instructions.

In 2008, Amy Curran Baker was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma and opted for bilateral mastectomy with Direct to Implant Reconstruction. Within three weeks of being diagnosed she had a mastectomy and was on the road to recovery. But after the surgery she had a lot of questions, the same that most women will have. As an Occupational Therapist, she knew some of the answers from her own clinical training and experience. But many more came from speaking with other women who had undergone mastectomies, from researching message boards, and a little bit of luck.

Curran, Linda, M.S.N.

Curran Brown, MaryBeth.

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