Surviving Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Patricia Prijatel, E.T. Meredith Distinguished Professor Emerita at Drake University, has helped educate, motivate, support, and challenge people for the better part of three decades. She is a nationally published magazine writer, an award-winning teacher, and a well-respected writing coach. Her Positives About Negative blog has reached more than 100,000 readers and is one of the few sites that deals specifically with triple negative breast cancer. She is a recognized authority on the magazine industry, as co-author of The Magazine from Cover to Cover, now in its third edition with Oxford University Press.

• Foreword: Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD ; Chapter 1: The Sun Shines on My Bald Head ; Educating Myself ; How to Use this Book ; The Language of TNBC ; I Am, Literally, a Friend ; Chapter 2: What is this Disease? ; Sorting Out the Negatives and Positives ; Recurrence and Metastases ; Race and Triple Negative ; The Age Factor ; BRCA Mutations ; Yeah, But ; Additional Resources ; Chapter 3: Understanding Your Diagnosis ; Testing, Testing ; Breast Cancer Types: Where Hormone-Negative Fits In ; Translating Your Pathology Report ; Chapter 4: The Biology of Triple Negative ; Risks, Correlations, and Exceptions ; The Implications of a Weakened Immune System ; Our Genetic Code ; The Interplay of Hormones and Receptors ; Inflammation and the Insulin Connection ; Reproductive Factors ; How and Why is Race a Factor? ; Men and Breast Cancer ; Chapter 5: Treatment: Your Options ; Facing Treatment ; Surgery: Lumpectomy Vs. Mastectomy ; Chemotherapy and TNBC ; Chemotherapy Drugs ; Biologic Therapies ; Radiation ; Tamoxifen and Arimidex ; Herceptin ; Combined Therapy for Hormone Negative ; Which Regimen Works Best? ; On the Horizon ; The Rest of You ; Alternative Treatments ; Follow-Up Care After Breast Cancer ; Chapter 6: The Positives of Healthy Living ; Exercise and Physical Activity ; Weight Control ; Diet: Healthy In, Healthy Out ; Putting it All Together ; Chapter 7: My Life Right Now ; What Cancer Means to Me Now ; TNBC Women ; Appendix: Annotated Pathology Report: Pat's Case

This well-written and informative book would certainly benefit anyone whose life has been touched by triple-negative breast cancer. It is written by a journalist who clearly knows how to research information, and she explains the most important messages in terms that readers of most educational backgrounds can understand without overwhelming them.