The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel Empowered and Take Control

The book you can trust to support you at every stage of your treatment—and beyond

Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, an academic GP, and Dr Liz O’Riordan, a Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon, are not only outstanding doctors, but they have also experienced breast cancer first-hand.

The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer brings together all the knowledge they have gathered as patients and as doctors to give you and your family a trusted, thorough and up-to-date source of information. Designed to empower you during your breast cancer treatment, it covers:

• Simple explanations of every breast cancer treatment
• Coping with the emotional burden of breast cancer
• Frank advice about sex and relationships
• Staying healthy during and after treatment
• Dealing with the fear of recurrence
• Living with secondary breast cancer

Professor Trisha Greenhalgh is a GP and internationally recognized academic who works as a senior professor at the University of Oxford and has appeared on Woman's Hour and The Today Programme. She is the author of more than 400 academic papers and 15 textbooks, including How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine. Liz O'Riordan is a Consultant Oncoplastic Surgeon who blogs about her experiences as a doctor and patient here: liz.oriordan.co.uk. She has written articles for the Huffington Post, Macmillan, Pool, and Grazia. Her TEDx talk is called "Jar of Joy."