The Journey Beyond Breast Cancer: From the Personal to the Political: Taking an Active Role in Prevention, Diagnosis, and Your Own Healing

All women are at risk for breast cancer, so this book is an immense comfort with information on the subject.Virginia Soffa was diagnosed at the age of thirty-eight with early-stage breast cancer.She takes a look at both conventional and alternative treaments and helps the reader make informed choices about prevention and treatment. There's a good chapter on risk factors.This a great, comprehensive text on the subject, which, along with the overview on possible causes -- environment, diet, pesticides, oral contraceptives -- also is one of the rare book resources that mentions electromagnetic energy fields!The personal and medical (science) side of the book are far more interesting than the political. Recommended as having something for everyone, every reader.