Breast Cancer covers the most recent clinical advances in this important and fast-moving area in a concise, practical, and very visually attractive manner. It is a concise and accessible text, enhanced with specially commissioned state-of-the-art computer graphics, and full color illustrations. It presents a comprehensive and very up-to-date account of all the important issues affecting the investigation, diagnosis and management of this disease, including molecular mechanisms and genetics, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery and systemic therapies, and all the very latest information on the new drugs available to treat this disease. Written by a world-class author team comprising a surgeon, chemotherapist and radiotherapist, Breast Cancer reflects the team approach taken to treat this life-threatening disease. INDICE: 1. The problem: incidence, epidemiology, risk factors 2. Normal breast physiology: ANDI, breast symptoms 3. Benign risk disease and disorders 4. Molecular basis of carcinoma of the breast (including family history genes) 5. Natural history of carcinoma of the breast: screening, diagnosing, imaging 6. Pathology, prognostic and predictive factors 7. Surgical treatment of early disease (including axillary surgery and breast reconstruction) 8. Radiotherapy for breast cancer 9. Adjuvant systemic therapy 10. Locally advanced breast cancer treatment 11. Metastatic breast cancer management 12. In situ cancer 13. Unusual presentations of breast cancer 14. Breast cancer chemoprevention 15. The future
- ISBN: 978-0-443-07180-5
- Editorial: Churchill Livingstone
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 20/04/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés