Breast Cancer

"The great strength of the book is its multidisciplinary format. In virtually all aspects of cancer treatment, optimal cancer management is becoming a coordinated effort among multiple experts. Breast Cancer...seeks to gather experts from a wide array of oncology disciplines to provide the reader with a broad and balanced perspective on the optimal management of breast cancer." - Robert C. Young, MD, President, American Cancer Society "We have here a well-illustrated, concisely prepared "state of the art" text, with which most questions about mammary cancer can be competently answered. A book for everyone who takes care of women (and men) with breast cancer" - Swiss Surg "The presented book is really an up-to-date source of the modern achievements for various fields of breast cancer managements. The excellently prepared book can be fully recommended to a wide scale of specialists, as medical oncologists, radiologists, surgeons, internal medicine specialists and even for primary care physicians." -Neoplasma

• I Clinical Management.- 1 Epidemiology and Clinical Risk Factors.- 2 Breast Imaging.- 3 Breast Biopsy Techniques.- 4 Clinical Classifications of Breast Cancer.- 5 Breast-Conserving Surgery: Lumpectomy With or Without Axillary Dissection.- 6 Mastectomy.- 7 Breast Reconstruction.- 8 Radiation Therapy.- 9 Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer.- 10 Hormonal Therapy of Breast Cancer.- 11 The Role of Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer.- 12 Male Breast Cancer.- 13 Oncogenes in the Development of Breast Cancer.- II Special Clinical Situations.- 14 Primary Chemotherapy.- 15 Axillary Adenopathy as the Initial Presentation of Breast Cancer.- 16 Breast Cancer During Pregnancy.- 17 Local-Regional Recurrence in Breast Cancer.- 18 Nipple Discharge.- 19 Sarcoma and Lymphoma of the Breast: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment.- III Current Controversies and Research.- 20 Breast Conservation Without Radiation Therapy for Carcinoma of the Breast.- 21 Axillary Node Dissection in Breast Cancer.- 22 Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes: Management and Other Controversies.- 23 High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for Breast Cancer.- 24 Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy for Breast Cancer.