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Welcome to the Living Beyond Breast Cancer library. Here you can access a user-friendly collection of LBBC resources to address your medical, psychosocial, emotional, legal and financial concerns.
Whether you are newly diagnosed, recently completed treatment, are years beyond or are living with advanced (metastatic) disease, or you are a family member, friend or healthcare provider, LBBC has a breast cancer resource tailored to your needs.
We hope the information offered in this collection will help you along your breast cancer journey. If you'd like to order books and resources found in this collection, visit our online marketplace.
Learning about Breast Cancer
Here are some recommended resources to get you started:
Our Programs and Services
In our general program brochure, Learn how Living Beyond Breast Cancer helps all women affected by breast cancer to live as long as possible with the best quality of life.
LBBC Understanding Breast Cancer Guides
Ask the Expert Q&A Sessions
LBBC Newsletters & Publications
Reports for Health Care Professionals
Recommended Resources
Guide to Understanding Financial Concerns
The Guide to Understanding Financial Concerns will help you navigate private and public health insurance plans and explains how to get insurance if you don't have it. Discover what to do if your claim is denied, how to access federal and private programs, when to use COBRA and disability and how to handle the "hidden" costs of breast cancer.
Guide to Understanding Lymphedema
Learn the signs and symptoms of breast cancer-related lymphedema, ways to manage your lymphedema risk, treatments for lymphedema, how lymphedema can impact your emotions and how to pay for lymphedema care.
March 2012 Ask the Expert: Sex and Intimacy
Living Beyond Breast Cancer expert Kara M. Nakisbendi, MD, answers your questions about sex and intimacy after a breast cancer diagnosis.
February 2012 Ask the Expert: Healthcare Reform
Living Beyond Breast Cancer expert Hillary C.M. Nelson, PhD, MPH, answers your questions about how healthcare reform impacts you as a woman diagnosed with breast cancer.
January 2012 Ask the Expert: Targeted Therapies and Personalized Medicine
Living Beyond Breast Cancer expert Robert A. Somer, MD, answers your questions about targeted therapies and personalized medicine.
Insight, Winter 2011/2012
The winter 2011/2012 issue of Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s quarterly newsletter features stories on managing medical records and the benefits of art and music therapy. A profile of Vivian Chan describes how she coped with breast cancer as a young woman.
Insights on Metastatic Breast Cancer, Winter 2011/2012
Get information on breast cancer that has spread to the liver or lungs, and learn about a clinical trial for women living with metastatic breast cancer. Read Marsi White's story of changing pace after a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis.
Silent Voices: Women with Advanced (Metastatic) Breast Cancer Share Their Needs and Preferences for Information, Support and Practical Resources
This extensive report contains findings from a 2005 survey of 618 women living with stage 4 (metastatic) breast cancer. It offers insights and direction on the information, support and practical needs of women living with advanced disease.
Visit Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s caregiving support page at CaringBridge.Lotsa Helping Hands
Visit Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s caregiving support page at LotsaHelpingHands.
