How Can Diagnostic Testing Help Me?

A Guidebook for Breast Cancer Patients

According to experts, about 1 in 8 women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. While breast cancer is a serious diagnosis, survival rates have increased dramatically over the years. Today, stage 1 detection has a better than 95% survival rate and even stage 4 patients can live another five years.

The key to this increase in survival is awareness and education. More patients know what to look for and how to seek help earlier, when there is a better chance for treatment of the disease. And, one of the newest tools in our arsenal, diagnostic testing, is helping patients better understand their options when it comes to treatment decisions.

This guidebook was developed to give breast cancer patients a better understanding of how diagnostic testing can help you make the important treatment decisions that will affect how you live with breast cancer now and in the future.

• Proactive care pre diagnosis
• Diagnosis of breast cancer
• The value of diagnostic testing: What it is, why it’s important to a patient
• Engaging your doctor
• Questions to ask your doctor
• Check list of next steps
• Glossary of terms you should know

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