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A Practical Guide
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Third Edition
Edited By
Orlando Silva, MD, JD, FACP, FCLM, Director of Breast Cancer Education, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Stefano Zurrida, MD, Current Secretary to the Minister of Health of Italy, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Direzione Scientifica, Milan, Italy
Description
Totally updated, including data from ASCO 2005, and revised to include a synopsis of the current wealth of literature available, this
best-selling text still retains its original purpose which is to provide an indispensable compendium of all the current information and
studies on breast cancer. Allowing oncologists, primary care physicians, medical students and nurses to base their practice on the current
evidence found in the literature, this book is essential for ensuring that practice is evidence based.
Contents
1 BENIGN BREAST DISEASE
BREAST CARCINOMA
2 HISTORY OF BREAST CANCER
3 EPIDEMIOLOGY
4 RISK FACTORS
5 SCREENING
6 IMAGING
STUDIES
7 EVALUATION OF A PALPABLE BREAST MASS AND NIPPLE DISCHARGE
8 BREAST PATHOLOGY
9 STAGING
10 PROGNOSTIC FACTORS
NON-INVASIVE
CANCER: CARCINOMA IN SITU
11 DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ)
12 LCIS (Lobular Carcinoma In Situ)
13 ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST
IRRADIATION (APBI)
INVASIVE CANCER
14 SURGICAL TREATMENT
15 POST-MASTECTOMY RADIOTHERAPY
16 AXILLARY LYMPH NODE DISSECTION
(ALND)
17 AXILLARY LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION
18 BREAST RECONSTRUCTION AFTER MASTECTOMY
19 STAGE III DISEASE
20 PRIMARY CHEMOTHERAPY
21
ADJUVANT Chemo THERAPY IN PRE- AND POST-MENOPAUSAL
22 ADJUVANT ENDOCRINE THERAPY IN PRE- AND POST-MENOPAUSAL
23 LOCAL BREAST
RECURRENCE
24 METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PRESENTATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
25 ENDOCRINE THERAPY FOR METASTATIC BREAST CANCER
26 STANDARD
CHEMOTHERAPY FOR METASTATIC BREAST CANCER
27 BREAST CANCER AND THE ELDERLY
28 SIDE EFFECTS OF CHEMOTHERAPY
29 INVESTIGATIONAL
AGENTS
30 HIGH-DOSE THERAPY
31 PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES IN BREAST CANCER
32 BREAST CANCER AND DEPRESSION
33 FOLLOWING BREAST CANCER
PATIENTS
34 MENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT
UNUSUAL PRESENTATIONS
35 PAGET DISEASE
36 BREAST CANCER AND PREGNANCY
37
PHYLLODES TUMOR
38 OCCULT BREAST CANCER PRESENTING AS A SOLITARY AXILLARY MASS
39 PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES IN BREAST CANCER
40
MALE BREAST
41 CHEMOPREVENTION
42 CARE OF THE DYING PATIENT
43 ISSUES IN BREAST CANCER LIABILITY
A1 National Breast Cancer
Support Organisations
A2 Breast Cancer Local Support Groups in the USA
A3 CHARGES RELATED TO BREAST CANCER TREATMENT IN THE U.S.A. & EUROPE
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 672 pages, publication date: AUG-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2744-4
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2744-8
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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