Helping breast cancer patients understand, treat, and conquer their disease includes the difficult challenge of helping them cope with the many family issues that they must face. There are few challenges more difficult than sharing a cancer diagnosis with young children.
Rochelle Hirsch and Naava Parker’s book “Lumps and Bumps” provides a child friendly, nonthreatening vehicle for a mother to begin the process of sharing a breast cancer diagnosis with her child. It presents many of the problems that lie ahead in a way that is realistic, age appropriate, and optimistic. I have shared it with patients of young children who have found it to be extremely valuable as a way to begin a difficult dialogue.
Lauren S. Cassell, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Chief of Breast Surgery
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY
