Breast cancer : a guide to detection and multidisciplinary therapy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, N.J. :
Humana Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Current clinical oncology (Totowa, N.J.)
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Table of Contents:
- I. Clinical management
- Epidemiology and clinical risk factors
- Breast imaging
- Breast biopsy techniques
- Clinical classifications of breast cancer
- Breast-conserving surgery : lumpectomy with or without axillary dissection
- Mastectomy
- Breast reconstruction
- Radiation therapy
- Chemotherapy in breast cancer
- Hormonal therapy of breast cancer
- The role of surgery for metastatic breast cancer
- Male breast cancer
- Oncogenes in the development of breast cancer
- II. Special clinical situations
- Primary chemotherapy
- Axillay adenopathy as the initial presentation of breast cancer
- Breast cancer during pregnancy
- Local-regional recurrence in breast cancer
- Nipple discharge
- Sarcoma and lymphoma of the breast : presentation, diagnosis, and treatment
- III. Current controversies and research
- Breast conservation without radiation therapy for carcinoma of the breast
- Axillary node dissection in breast cancer
- Internal mammary lymph nodes : management and other controversies
- High-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation for breast cancer
- Immunotherapy and gene therapy for breast cancer