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Welcome
to the third annual edition of The American Breast Cancer Guide.
If you are reading the Guide, you are a woman with concerns about
your health, your femininity, the way you look, and how your family
will cope with your disease.
The mission
of The American Breast Cancer Guide is to keep you informed
of the latest technological, medical and human interest stories,
that will inspire, interest and inform you. This issue includes
stories that cover the stages of breast cancer, from first diagnosis,
to treatment, surgery and recovery. In this issue, we discuss
tamoxifen, brachytherapy, 10 ways you can look (and feel) more
beautiful, how to be fitted for a prostheses, and feature an interview
with Cynthia Nixon (Miranda of HBO¹s Sex and the City), whose
mother is a breast cancer survivor.
On this page,
you will also notice our newly formed Editorial Advisory Board,
a group of highly regarded professionals from a variety of health
disciplines, that will advise us, as well as suggest and review
topics and issues of interest to breast cancer patients. We are
in a fight--no--a war against breast cancer. To that end, I¹d
like to address the recent controversy over mammograms. The Guide¹s
opinion is that the jury is still out on the issue, and although
the mammogram is certainly an imperfect tool at best it
is still a tool and one which might just save a life due
to early detection.
I encourage
you to read my interview with noted breast cancer advocate Dr.
Susan Love (see page 8), in which she discusses her own invention
for early detection, the breast pap smear, which is being used
in centers and doctor¹s offices around the country.
Please think
of me as your advocate as well. I know that no matter what stage
of breast cancer you are in, you need emotional support, and want
to look beautiful and feel well. With this and every issue of
the Guide, I aim to help you accomplish those goals. Let¹s
keep up the fight together. And please write or email me at www.abcgonline.com
with your stories, suggestions and feelings. 
Enjoy
the issue!
Estelle
Sobel
Editor-in-Chief
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