Tips for Building Your Breast Cancer Care Team

Breast cancer treatment can be an overwhelming experience for anyone. Having the right cancer care team behind you may help improve the treatment experience for you.

“I think it's important to get people around you that you feel you can open up to and people that you can rely on,” says Stephanie Bernik, MD, Breast Oncologic Surgeon at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. “You're going to need support.”

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