Breast Cancer Questions app for iPhone and iPad

This app contains the most comprehensive questions and the standard NIH/NCI authoritative answers to every fundamental breast cancer related question you may have. The FAQ like Q&A app is extremely simple to use and you can simply search for your question and touch the question that best matches what you are looking for. If you do not find the the question you are looking for, simply email us at: [email protected]
and we will add your question along with an expert answer.

This is simply the number 1 breast cancer application that contains answers to your breast cancer questions at your finger tips. The application is completely free to use and intended solely to be helpful to breast cancer patients and their loved ones trying to understand their breast cancer diagnosis such as the type, staging and grading, tests including hormone receptor tests, treatment options including surgical options, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, 5-year survival rates based on the diagnosis. It also contains questions to help facilitate discussions with your doctors about surgeries, diagnosis and treatment plans.

Questions & topics include:
What is cancer?
What is a Tumor?
Different types of tumors
Ductal or lobular carcinomas
Hormone receptor status
Lab tests (such as hormone receptor or HER2) determine breast cancer treatment options
Triple negative breast cancer
Gene expression (Oncotype DX, MammaPrint) tests
Breast cancer’s grade
Breast cancer stages
Metastatic breast cancer
5-year survival rates for breast cancer
Questions to ask your doctor about breast cancer tests
Questions should I ask my doctor about my breast cancer diagnosis
Questions should I ask my doctor about breast cancer treatment plans
Surgical options available to treat breast cancer
Questions to ask my doctor about breast cancer surgery options
Questions to ask my doctor during my breast cancer treatment
Questions to ask my doctor after my breast cancer treatment
Choosing between breast conserving surgery and mastectomy
Surgery to remove lymph nodes
Breast reconstruction options after my surgery to treat cancer
Surgeries a viable treatment option for advanced breast cancer
Wire localization to guide surgery
Radiation therapy be used to treat breast cancer
Types of radiation therapy are available to treat breast cancer
Brachytherapy
Which chemotherapy drugs are used for breast cancer
How is chemotherapy given
Side effects of chemotherapy drugs
What are the hormone therapy treatment options to treat breast cancer?
Side-effects of hormone therapy?
Drugs that block estrogen receptors?
Treatments to lower estrogen levels?
Targeted therapies for treating breast cancers
Targeted therapy options for HER2-positive breast cancer, hormone receptor positive breast cancer, women with BRCA gene mutations, avPIK3CA gene mutation
Immunotherapy for breast cancer and how does it work
Immunotherapy treatment options for breast cancer
Side effects of immunotherapy treatments
Side-effects of targeted therapies
Treatment health care team
Second opinion before I start my treatment
Questions to ask my doctor about hormone therapy, chemotherapy or targeted therapy
Questions to ask your doctor about breast reconstruction after possible mastectomy
Nutrition during breast cancer treatment
Follow-up care or checkups I need after my breast cancer treatment
Sources of support after being diagnosed with breast cancer
Information about relevant cancer treatment research or clinical trials
Aromatase Inhibitor
Biopsy
Breast-sparing surgery
Clinical trial
CT scan
Ductal carcinoma in situ
Early-stage breast cancer
Estrogen
External radiation therapy
Lumpectomy
Lymph node
Lymphedema
Malignant
Mammogram
Mastectomy
Medical oncologist
Menopause
Menstrual period
Who is a plastic surgeon?
What is plastic surgery?
Progesterone
Radiation oncologist
Reconstructive surgeon
Registered dietitian
What is a segmental mastectomy?
What is Tamoxifen?
What is a Total mastectomy?