After mastectomy : healing physically and emotionally /

Benedet, Rosalind Dolores.

After mastectomy : healing physically and emotionally / Rosalind Benedet. - Omaha, Neb. : Addicus Books, c2003. - vii, 159 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Contents
1. Recovery after surgery
2. Your exercise program
3. Nutrition : a guide to healtHful eating
4. Coping emotionally
5. Breast forms and undergarments
6. Chemotherapy and hormonal therapy
7. Radiation therapy
8. Breast reconstruction options
9. Recovery from reconstruction surgery
10. Understanding lymphedema
11. Follow-up care.


Includes index.



1886039615 (pbk.)


Mastectomy--Popular works.
Mastectomy--rehabilitation--Popular Works.
Breast Neoplasms--therapy--Popular Works.

618.19059 / BEN

WP 910 / B462a 2003