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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Breast Cancer: How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life » (Reprint)

Book cover image of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Breast Cancer: How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life by John R. Lee

Authors: John R. Lee, Virginia Hopkins, David Zava, Virginia Hopkins, David Zava
ISBN-13: 9780446679800, ISBN-10: 0446679801
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: John R. Lee

Book Synopsis

With a revolutionary program featuring natural progesterone, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer shows women how they can help prevent breast cancer and help eliminate a recurrence if they have already had the disease.

Library Journal

	Introduction	xiii
Part I	The History, Politics, and Nature of Breast Cancer	1
Chapter 1	The History and Politics of the Breast Cancer Industry: Why We Can't Seem to Prevent or Cure Breast Cancer	3
Chapter 2	Risk Factors for Breast Cancer: Why It All Points to Estrogen	26
Chapter 3	The Nature of Cancer: Normal Cells That Refuse to Grow Up	44
Chapter 4	Other Factors That Affect Susceptibility to Breast Cancer: Insulin Resistance, Birth Control Pills, Early Puberty, DHEA, Prolactin, Melatonin, Thyroid	63
Chapter 5	The Nature of Breast Cancer: Nurturing Gone Awry	84
Part II	The Sex Hormones and How They Affect Breast Cancer	95
Chapter 6	The Nature of Estrogens: Angels of Life, Angels of Death	97
Chapter 7	How Estrogen Talks to Your Cells: The Right Communication Is Everything	116
Chapter 8	Estriol: A Safer Replacement Estrogen: Mother Nature's Designer Estrogen	136
Chapter 9	The Nature of Progesterone: The Great Protector	153
Chapter 10	The Nature of the Androgens: The Part "Male" Hormones Play in a Woman's Hormonal Orchestra	171
Chapter 11	The Problem of Ert and Hrt: How Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Cause Cancer	182
Chapter 12	Tamoxifen and Raloxifene: Why Synthetic Drugs Create New Problems	196
Part III	Practical Advice for Preventing and Healing Breast Cancer	209
Chapter 13	How and When to Use Natural Progesterone: The Guardian Angel of Breast Cancer	211
Chapter 14	How and When to Use Other Hormones: Estrogen, DHEA, Pregnenolone, the Corticosteroids, Testosterone, and Androstenedione	233
Chapter 15	Testing and Symptoms: How to Determine Your Hormone Balance	245
Chapter 16	The Light and Dark Sides of Soy: How to Eat Soy So That It Helps	262
Chapter 17	How Nutrition Affects Your Breast Cancer Risk: Making Good Choices Can Make the Difference	285
Chapter 18	Protecting the Present and the Future: Creating an Environment Where Cancer Can't Get Started	316
	Resources	344
	Recommended Reading	353
	References	357
	Appendix	427
	Index	432
	About the Authors	443