The Breast Advice

Everything you need to know about breast health and breast cancer in one place, essential advice you can trust from Mount Sinai’s Chief of Breast Surgery, Dr. Elisa Port, and her patients. Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in the United States. There are 300,000 women diagnosed in the United States each year, and of all cancers women get, one in three will be breast. Everyone has been touched by breast cancer in some way – as the more than 4 million breast cancer survivors in the US can attest. With misinformation flooding us from chat forums to wellness influencers, where can we turn for the truth?The Breast Advice offers a trustworthy resource as you navigate assessing your risk of breast cancer, navigate screening and prevention, and treatment, dispelling myths and laying out the facts, including the latest innovations from AI to new screening techniques. Bringing in patients' wisdom together with her 25 years of experience as one of New York’s most celebrated specialists, Mount Sinai’s Chief of Breast Surgery Dr. Elisa Port has created a comprehensive guide to breast cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment. AddressinLifestyle factors to prevent breast cancerRisk assessment, screening, and testing—including the latest technologyDiagnosis—choosing a doctor, what to ask, how to manage hard newsTreatment—from radiation and chemotherapy to surgery and novel therapiesTop ten pieces of advice from patients who have been through itAn essential resource for everyone with breasts, The Breast Advice will be passed around and relied upon for years to come.