This book is incomplete but it's a good primer. Chapters include how to figure out your risk based on genetics and lifestyle factors and the importance of things like sleep and diet. It's easy to read with 5 questions to quiz yourself at the start of each chapter and then at the end it gives you the answers which you should have figured out by then. It's pretty basic and mainstream. Most people who are fairly educated on health issues will know all of this but I may overestimate the public.

One thing that drives me crazy in cancer books and articles is that nobody talks about some of the choices that make huge differences in your cancer risk like breastfeeding. Multiple studies have shown that breastfeeding greatly reduces a woman's chance of breast cancer, with each month leading to a further reduction. It takes a lot of months to see big reductions but as someone who had five kids and did extended breastfeeding with all of them, it was a huge relief to see how much that reduced my lifetime chance of ever getting breast cancer -- and it also reduced my daughters' chances. ❤️ Likewise, we know that every birth reduces a woman's chances of both breast and ovarian cancer (breastfeeding also reduces ovarian cancer rates). Obviously nobody is going to tell women to have a lot of babies just to reduce their cancer risks, but these are big statistical differences and worth telling.

From an article I wrote on the topic a few years ago:

"Researchers reported in JAMA that breastfeeding for any length of time reduced breast cancer risk in general by 25% for all women. In the famous Nurses’ Health Study II, a long-term study of more than 100,000 women, researchers followed more than 60,000 women and found that the reduction was observed for women who breastfed for as little as three months over their lifetimes.

The benefit was even greater for women who had a family history of breast cancer. Generally, having a mother or sister who had breast cancer leads to a far greater risk of contracting breast cancer, but breastfeeding greatly helped improve the odds. For women with a family history of breast cancer, breastfeeding for any length of time was associated with a 59% lower risk of breast cancer.

In addition, the longer a woman breastfeeds over her lifetime, the lower her chances of contracting breast cancer become. When researchers looked at 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, they found that for every 12 months a woman breastfed over her lifetime, her risk of breast cancer decreased by another 4.3% (with another 7% decrease for every birth).

These numbers add up, especially when we engage in other healthy behaviors that lower our breast cancer risk such as eating lots of fruits and vegetables, getting regular exercise, not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight and minimizing alcohol intake."

All that said, this is a good basic book with sound advice.

I read a digital ARC of this book for review.

Useful and practical read, thought provoking with examples and strategies that can be implemented. Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book which I received in exchange for an honest review

A lot of helpful and informative information. Easy to follow and understand. Not as dry as some self help books. Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book