Breast Cancer

This is a comprehensive yet concise and clinically relevant textbook covering the multidisciplinary management of patients with breast cancer. Clinical relevance is stressed in each section of this book to produce a timely and useful textbook. The clinical chapters cover the epidemiology, diagnosis, and multidisciplinary treatment of breast cancer patients. Special clinical situations are addressed in detail including neoadjuvant chemotherapy, axillary adenopathy as initial...
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This is a comprehensive yet concise and clinically relevant textbook covering the multidisciplinary management of patients with breast cancer. Clinical relevance is stressed in each section of this book to produce a timely and useful textbook. The clinical chapters cover the epidemiology, diagnosis, and multidisciplinary treatment of breast cancer patients. Special clinical situations are addressed in detail including neoadjuvant chemotherapy, axillary adenopathy as initial presentation, breast cancer during pregnancy, local/regional recurrence, nipple discharge and miscellaneous breast tumors such as sarcoma, lymphoma and cystosarcoma phylloides. Current controversies and research are an important component of this book. Clinical issues such as axillary lymph node management and the role of sentinel lymph nodes, and immunotherapy and gene therapy are discussed with their potential implications to alter the management of breast cancer patients in the future. Selected, current references are provided in each chapter to reference important and landmark studies in the management of breast cancer. This multidisciplinary approach will appeal to surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, gynecologists, primary care physicians, gerontologists, and all other physicians and health care personnel treating breast cancer patients.