In the quest to meet an ever-higher standard of physical beauty, many women choose breast implants without knowing the potential health risks. Absolutely safe chronicles four women's stories and the need for informed consent.

In All wigged out, Grammyʼ Award-winner Marcy Marxer uses her renowned musical mastery and eclectic wit, storytelling, and comedy to share her firsthand experiences with breast cancer. Starting with a funky mammogram in June 2015 and ending shortly after her last chemo pill in spring of 2021, Marxer traces her transition from award-winning virtuosic musician to artist struggling with chemo-induced neuropathy, and her path back to touring musician....

Doctoral student and part-time professor, Marie-Philip loves cats and Harry Potter. But a week before her 29th birthday, the young woman learned that she had breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we accompanied her through each stage while she confided with moving honesty. An ode to the life, courage, and resilience of all those who fight daily against illness.

In the heartbeat of Miami, four women from varied backgrounds come together at The Breast Center, bound by a common challenge: breast cancer. From the anxieties of imaging and the intricacies of treatments to the weight of surgeries, their journeys become a testament to resilience, friendship, and mutual support. But it's not just their stories that take center stage. The heartbeats of the center-its doctors, nurses, and staff-hold tales of their...

Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive, she responds by running away from her marriage and her life -- a life that, on the outside, looks like middle-class success. Her actions send...

After years of biopsies, author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy, but after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And gained? An experienced sleuth, she resolved to venture behind the scenes to uncover the social and cultural significance of breasts. Tits Up reveals the diverse truths of mammary glands from the strip club to the operating room, from the nation's oldest human milk bank...