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Everything you need to know about breast health in one place, essential advice you can trust from Mount Sinai''s Chief of Breast Surgery, Dr. Elisa Port, and her patients. Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in the United States. There are 300,000 women diagnosed in the United States each year, and of all cancers women get, one in three will be breast. Everyone has been touched by breast cancer in some way - as the more than 4 million breast cancer survivors in the US can attest. With misinformation flooding us from chat forums to wellness influencers, where can we turn for the truth? The Breast Advice offers a trustworthy resource as you navigate assessing your risk of breast cancer, navigate screening and prevention, and treatment, dispelling myths and laying out the facts, including the latest innovations from AI to new screening techniques. Bringing in patients'' wisdom together with her 25 years of experience as one of New York''s most celebrated specialists, Mount Sinai''s Chief of Breast Surgery Dr. Elisa Port has created a comprehensive guide to breast cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment. Addressing: Lifestyle factors to prevent breast cancer Risk assessment, screening, and testing--including the latest technology Diagnosis--choosing a doctor, what to ask, how to manage hard news Treatment--from radiation and chemotherapy to surgery and novel therapies Top ten pieces of advice from patients who have been through it An essential resource for everyone with breasts, The Breast Advice will be passed around and relied upon for years to come.
About the author
Dr. Elisa R. Port is the Chief of Breast Surgery for Mount Sinai Health System in New York. She joined Mount Sinai Hospital and its Icahn School of Medicine in 2010 and is also a Professor of Surgery. Dr. Port performs hundreds of operations each year and is sought out for both her expertise and surgical skills by patients from all over the world. She is an expert in the most advanced surgical techniques for breast cancer treatment while also advising many patients at high risk for breast cancer. Dr. Port also actively conducts both clinical and basic science research, publishing in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Annals of Surgery, and Cancer Research, and she is a member of several professional associations and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
