Why We Love It

Erin Lee Perkins, the Board President of The Young Breast Cancer Project, wrote this guide to navigating breast cancer, with women like her in mind. She tailored general advice and incorporated specific concerns to address the needs of women under 45 with a breast cancer diagnosis. She combines personal insights from her own experience, along with practical tips— and approaches her subject with a gentle, direct, understanding tone (Perkins hates toxic positivity as much as we do). This guide includes a glossary of terms so you can catch up quickly to the new terminology of cancer, as well as sections on navigating fertility, preparing for treatment, and parenting and dating during treatment.