by Catherine Doughty (Author)
For the first time ever, there is a brand new Award Winning Breast Cancer Book titled Breast Cancer! You're kidding...right? Living Life Through The Prism Of Uncertainty And Having A Good Time! The book speaks to anyone, with any stage of breast cancer, and provides scientific methodology with accompanying tools, decision matrices, guidance and support, peppered with amazing humor through breast biopsies, bilateral mastectomies, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and breast reconstruction. If you want to be cancer free and look hot, naked to the heterosexual male, then this book is an adrenaline thrill ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat and provide a clear and calming strategy to see you from any point in the cancer treatment planning stages and post treatment. You can't put the book down because you will be mesmerized by what is going to happen next as the author introduces you to each and every physician and clinician that she consulted with during her battle with breast cancer. You will meet the Super Hero's, the Kahuna Ha Ha, Dr. Love, St. Liseth, and her fascinating family and friends. Throughout the book, readers will be given advice and counsel on how to navigate the often confusing health care maze, manage the treatment scenarios proposed and make a critical decision eliminating as much uncertainty as possible to ensure survival, and be given instruction on how to communicate a cancer diagnosis with employers, family and friends. The book continually provides strategy on how to determine and select life saving or life threatening treatment planning in an uncertain decision space reducing variation, and increasing survival while minimizing the risk and rate of a breast cancer recurrence. The author will show you how to utilize criteria decision matrices and discussion documents to make treatment plans that will get your life back in control quickly. You will also learn that information being presented to you may be misrepresented and how to drill down to get the answers you need. Finally, you will begin to see uncertainty for the gift it is, while learning to live your life through the prism of uncertainty and have a rocking hot good time as you emerge absolutely stunning!
Author Biography
Catherine Doughty, MS, CCHI, is an award winning author who holds a Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics from The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics. In addition to her career as a Director for the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, she is a trained Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor for three universities. For the first time in book form, Cathy provides an intensive understanding and step-by-step guide utilizing scientific methodology to navigate complex issues and medical decision making in an uncertain decision space that a patient experiences during a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Her personal experience with breast cancer, paired with an yielding sense of humor, is woven throughout this book and provides insights on how to utilize a tool set and see how information being refracted can be misrepresented through the prism of uncertainty. She will walk the reader through each phase of breast cancer treatment planning with decision matrices, forms, and discussion documents while keeping you on the edge of your seat on an adrenaline thrill ride wondering what is going to happen next and empowered throughout every page!
Number of Pages: 140
Dimensions: 0.3 x 8 x 5 IN
Publication Date: November 17, 2011