The Black Woman's Breast Cancer Survival Guide: Understanding and Healing in the Face of a Nationwide Crisis

Breast cancer is reaching epidemic levels, especially among black women. This survival guide provides tools that women—black women in particular—can use to identify and combat this all-too-common threat.

• Speaks from the perspective of a black woman who has had breast cancer and is also an academic who researched breast cancer

• Provides current information and practical advice for beating breast cancer

• Explains tests and treatment options

• Includes information on research studies and outcomes for black women with breast cancer

• Explores why black women are more likely than women of any other race or ethnicity to develop aggressive and fast-growing breast tumors during their childbearing years