Quest for the cure : reflections on the evolution of breast cancer treatment /
This original fourteen chapter book is a brief, slightly autobiographic tale of medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, and breast cancer patients in a well-established cancer center in Texas, who pursued the goal of cure for breast cancer. The evolution of improved outcomes in the tre...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This original fourteen chapter book is a brief, slightly autobiographic tale of medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, and breast cancer patients in a well-established cancer center in Texas, who pursued the goal of cure for breast cancer. The evolution of improved outcomes in the treatment of microscopic metastatic breast cancer is also the story of the development of adjuvant chemotherapy for post-operative breast disease. The adjuvant therapy of breast cancer came about with the realization that this malignancy, when diagnosed in most patients, had spread beyond the confin. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 84 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| ISBN: | 9780124202085 012420208X 130607083X 9781306070836 |