BREAST CANCER GENERAL INFORMATION
Websites and Books
- Breast Cancer Topic Overview
Search Healthwise® Knowledgebase within your UCSF MyChart account. Call 415-353-8400 to have a direct link sent to you.
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/ucsfmychart/ - Emmi Solutions
User friendly, engaging online tool available to UCSF Breast Care Center patients. Call 415-353-8400 or email us to arrange to have an email invitation sent to you. - UCSF Patient Education
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/conditions/breast_cancer/ - BreastCancer.org
A comprehensive online resource about breast cancer.
http://www.breastcancer.org/ - American Cancer Society
All About Breast Cancer
www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/index - National Cancer Institute
Breast Cancer Home Page
https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast - Medivizor.com
Provides personalized information and subsequent updates about research, treatment options, relevant clinical trials. Summarizes research articles (and provides full text).
https://medivizor.com/ - Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
Available on Amazon.
https://www.drsusanloveresearch.org/dr-susan-loves-breast-book - Aftershock! What to do when the doctor gives you – or someone you love – a devastating diagnosis
Jessie Gruman's book on how to cope with a life-threatening diagnosis. Available on Amazon.
www.aftershockbook.com/ - "What Do I Tell the Kids?"
By the Cancer Support Community. Order online or available at the UCSF Cancer Resource Center.
https://orders.cancersupportcommunity.org/ - The Empowered Patient
A book by Julia Hallisy with hundreds of life-saving facts, action steps and strategies you need to know.
http://theempoweredpatient.com/ - EngagedPatients.org
A national campaign with the vision that all patients and their loved ones have free access to the tools and the resources they need to be fully informed and participating members of their health care teams.
http://engagedpatients.org/