Patient Education Information

Breast Cancer Center - The Mayo Clinic provides great information at this site.

Deciphering Breast Cancer Medspeak - The Medical Library Association has created this brochure of terms.

Finding Breast Lumps Early - Great advice from FamilyDoctor.org.

What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer - The National Cancer Institute provides this information.

Mammograms - Learn more about mammograms from the National Women's Health Information Center.

Mammograms and Breast Cancer - Click here to see why a woman needs a mammogram, the info is from the FDA.

Understanding Breast Changes - The National Cancer Institute has created this learning tool.

Breast Cancer from NOAH - NOAH, New York Online Access to Health, strives to provide high quality, full-text, health information for consumers. This site can be viewed in English or Spanish

breastcancer.org - breastcancer.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most reliable, complete, and up-to-date information about breast cancer. Their mission is to help women and their loved ones make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives.

Breast Cancer Glossary - The Cleveland Clinic offers this list of terms and definitions.

The Breast Cancer Site - Your click on the "Fund Free Mammograms" button helps fund free mammograms, paid for by site sponsors whose ads appear after you click and provided to women in need through the efforts of the National Breast Cancer Foundation to low-income, inner-city and minority women, whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited.

Breast Cancer Prevention Studies - The National Cancer Institute outlines what studies have been done and how they were done.

Breast Reconstruction - The National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre offers this information.

Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy - The American Cancer Society also offers information on this topic.

Cancer Facts - The National Cancer Institute has created dozens of fact sheets about all aspects of cancer, they can be accessed here. They also have versions in Spanish.

Emotional Aspects of Breast Cancer - The Cleveland Clinic covers this information.

Estimating Breast Cancer Risk - The National Cancer Institute offers this list of risk factors for breast cancer.

Hair, Skin and Nails - Breastcancer.org offers advice on how your appearance might change, and how long it will take to get back to normal.

Lifestyle Vs. Breast Cancer - See what the American Cancer Society says about how you can cut your risk of breast cancer with some lifestyle changes.

MD Anderson Cancer Center - Read the latest news and research from this respected Cancer Center.

MEDLINEPlus Medical Encyclopedia - The Health Illustrated Encyclopedia from MedlinePlus includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Please check the alphabetic listing for the topic you want.

National Cancer Institute: PDQ - Cancer treatment summaries for patients, written in easy-to-understand, non-technical language, can be obtained by selecting the appropriate cancer type.

Needle Biopsy - The Mayo Clinic explains how this test is done.

New Test May Spot Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer - The American Cancer Society distills the evidence from a recent study on the use of breast fluid to predict a woman's risk for breast cancer.

Preventing Breast Cancer: Lifestyle Choices and Other Factors You Can Control - The MayoClinic offers this advice to cut down your chances of developing breast cancer.

Stages of Breast Cancer - The Mayo Clinic offers this slide show describing how cancer spreads.

Surgery Choices for Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer - Learn more from the National Cancer Institute.

Types of Breast Cancer - The Mayo Clinic provides this information.

Ultrasound-Guided Breast Biopsy - The Radiological Society of North America, Inc. provides this information.

Understanding Your Cancer Risk - This interactive quiz will help you see how at risk you might be for this type of cancer.

Your Cancer Risk - Take this quick quiz from Washington University in St. Louis to see what your risk level is, and how to lower that risk.

Your Pathology Report - Here is a clear cut description of what to expect, and how to decode the results.

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