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Breast cancer : a guide to detection and multidisciplinary therapy /

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Excluding skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring in women and certainly the most feared. In Breast Cancer: A Guide to Detection and Multidisciplinary Therapy, Michael H. Torosian, MD, and a panel of physicians and clinical researchers critically synthesize the wide variety of...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Torosian, Michael, 1952 April 23-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2002]
Series:Current clinical oncology (Totowa, N.J.)
Subjects:
Breast > Cancer.
Breast Neoplasms > therapy.
Seno > Cáncer.
MEDICAL > Oncology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Foreword, Robert C. Young, MD
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • I CLINICAL MANAGEMENT
  • 1 Epidemiology and Clinical Risk Factors
  • Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD
  • 2 Breast Imaging
  • Julia A. Birnbaum, MD, and Emily F. Conant, MD
  • 3 Breast Biopsy Techniques
  • Lisa A. Newman, MD, and Frederick C. Ames, MD
  • 4 Clinical Classifications of Breast Cancer
  • Michael H. Torosian, MD, FACS
  • 5 Breast-Conserving Surgery:
  • Lumpectomy With or Without Axillary Dissection
  • Samuel W. Beenken, MD, and Kirby L Bland, MD
  • 6 Mastectomy
  • David R. Brenin, MD, and David W. Kinne, MD
  • 7 Breast Reconstruction
  • Louis P. Bucky, MD, and Gary A. Tuma, MD
  • 8 Radiation Therapy
  • Barbara Fowble, MD, and Gary Freedman, MD
  • 9 Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer
  • Michael P. Russin, MD, and Lori J. Goldstein, MD
  • 10 Hormonal Therapy of Breast Cancer
  • Halle C.F. Moore, MD, and Kevin R. Fox, MD
  • 11 The Role of Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer
  • Lori Jardines, MD
  • 12 Male Breast Cancer
  • Mahmoud El-Tamer, MD, FACS, and Lucy J. Kim, MD
  • 13 Oncogenes in the Development of Breast Cancer
  • Xiao Tan Qiao, MD, Kenneth L. van Golen, PhD,
  • and Sofia D. Merajver, MD, PhD
  • II SPECIAL CLINICAL SITUATIONS
  • 14 Primary Chemotherapy
  • Deborah L. Toppmeyer, MD
  • 15 Axillary Adenopathy as the Initial Presentation of Breast Cancer
  • Shirley Scott, MD, and Monica Morrow, MD
  • 16 Breast Cancer During Pregnancy
  • Mary L. Gemignani, MD, and Jeanne A. Petrek, MD
  • 17 Local-Regional Recurrence in Breast Cancer
  • Thomas J. Kearney, MD, FACS, and David A. August, MD, FACS
  • 18 Nipple Discharge
  • Marcia Boraas, MD
  • 19 Sarcoma and Lymphoma of the Breast:
  • Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment
  • Helena Chang, MD, PhD, and Jane Kakkis, MD
  • III CURRENT CONTROVERSIES AND RESEARCH
  • 20 Breast Conservation Without Radiation Therapy
  • for Carcinoma of the Breast
  • Gordon F. Schwartz, MD, MBA
  • 21 Axillary Node Dissection in Breast Cancer
  • James F. Pingpank, Jr., MD, and Elin R. Sigurdson, MD, PhD
  • 22 Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes: Management and Other Controversies
  • James C. Watson, MD, and John P. Hoffman, MD
  • 23 High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation
  • for Breast Cancer
  • Edward A. Stadtmauer, MD
  • 24 Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy for Breast Cancer
  • Daniela Santoli, PhD, and Sophie Visonneau, PhD
  • Index.