Breast cancer management : application of clinical and translational evidence to patient care /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nabholtz, Jean-Marc
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2003]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Treatment recommendations for specific stages of breast cancer
  • Sec. 1. Early stage disease: radiation
  • Radiation therapy for breast cancer: radiotherapy techniques to decrease treatment morbidity
  • The role of radiation therapy in breast cancer management
  • Survival impact of locoregional radiation in stage I-II breast cancer: evidence-based review
  • Sec. 2. Early stage disease-surgery, chemotherapy, and hormones
  • Evolution in the management of ductal carcinoma in situ through randomized clinical trials
  • Should surgeons abandon a routine axillary dissection for sentinel node biopsy in early breast cancer?
  • Surgical consideration in breast cancer patients treated with preoperative chemotherapy
  • The medical oncology perspective on preoperative chemotherapy for early operable breast cancer
  • Adjuvant treatment: node-negative breast cancer
  • Node-positive breast cancer
  • Sec. 3. Metastatic disease: chemotherapy
  • The taxanes: paclitaxel and docetaxel
  • Capecitabine
  • Vinorelbine
  • Liposomal doxorubicin in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer
  • High-dose chemotherapy and autologus stem cell transplantation for metastatic breast cancer
  • Sec. 4. Metastatic disease: hormone treatment
  • Aromatase inhibitors in the treatment of breast cancer
  • New antiestrogens: modulators of estrogen action
  • Pt. II. Translational approaches: current, planned, and most promising
  • Sec. 1. Current
  • HER2/neu and trastuzumab
  • Low-dose metronomic antiangiogenic chemotherapy: preclinical and clinical applications in breast cancer
  • Epidermal growth factor receptor: biology and new therapeutics
  • Dimming the blood tide: angiogenesis, anti-angiogenic therapy and breast cancer
  • Results from a phase 1 trial of E1A gene therapy in breast and ovarian cancer: what's next
  • Sec. 2. DNA microarray analysis of breast cancer: toward customized anti-cancer drug therapy and rational drug design
  • Proteomics of breast cancer: marker discovery and signal pathway profiling
  • Steroid and growth factor receptors: cross-talk and clinical implications
  • Cell cycle inhibitors in the treatment of breast cancer
  • Predictive molecular markers: a new window of opportunity in the adjuvant therapy of breast cancer
  • Pt. III. Anatomapathology and the metastatic process
  • Basic biology of the metastatic process: clinical implications
  • Prognostic and predictive factors in breast cancer: an evidence-based medicine approach
  • Prognostic factors in invasive breast cancer using histology
  • Pt. IV. Issues for the practicing oncologist
  • Sec. 1. Supportive care and quality of life
  • Science and alternative therapy: the past, present and future
  • Ethics and hereditary cancer: issues for women and families with hereditary breast/ovarian cancer
  • Hematopoietic growth factor support in breast cancer
  • Erythropoietin in the management of cancer patients
  • The place of bisphosphonates in the management of breast cancer
  • Cutaneous metastasis and malignant wounds
  • Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
  • Quality of life data interpretation: an update on key issues in advanced breast cancer
  • The internet, the evidence and the health consumer
  • Sec. 2. Prevention and screening
  • Breast screening
  • Chemoprevention studies in Italy and the United Kingdom
  • Breast cancer prevention: the U.S. viewpoint
  • Pt. V. Clinical data analysis: current and future standards
  • Evidence analysis: historical and contemporary perspectives
  • Clinical practice guidelines
  • RECIST: response evaluation criteria in solid tumors
  • Need for large-scale randomized evidence to assess moderate benefits reliably
  • Economic evaluation analysis in breast cancer therapy: from evidence to practice
  • Pt. VI. High-dose chemotherapy
  • High-dose chemotherapy in the adjuvant therapy of breast cancer: the argument for further investigation
  • Pt. VII. Summary statement
  • The future of breast cancer medicine