Excerpt from Understanding Breast Cancer Treatment: A Guide for PatientsMany breast cancer survivors contributed their valuable insight and voices of experience to the development of this booklet. The National Cancer Institute is grateful to them, the health professionals, and breast cancer advocates whose review and comments helped to bring this important information to breast cancer patients.The National Cancer Institute is grateful also to the California Department of Health Services for permission to adapt their publication A Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment for national distribution, and extends thanks to the expert development team, writers, and reviewers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.