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Breast Diseases


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Patrick I. Borgen
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Arnold D.K. Hill
St. Vincent's University Hospital
Dublin, Ireland

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ISBN: 978-1-57059-578-3
Pub date: 2000-01-01
192 pages
52 figures
22 tables


About this book

The authors are experts in the field of breast diseases and have compiled an up-to-the-minute, concise, and practical handbook that encapsulates current thinking on a wide range of topics from normal breast anatomy through the management of Stage IV breast cancer. This book helps us to identify patients at the highest echelon of risk. It also provides a greater understanding of the most fundamental mechanisms involved in breast cancer development and progression.

Table of contents

Anatomy of the Breast and Axilla
Mary L. Gemignanir

Assessment and Investigation of Common Breast Symptoms
Leslie L. Montgomery

Benign Breast Disease
A.D. Purushotham, P. Britton, and L. Bobrow

Risk Factors, Screening, and Prevention
Alexandra S. Heerdt

Pathology, Prognosis and Staging of Breast Cancer
Laura Weldon Hoque

Breast Imaging
Laura Liberman and Timothy L. Feng

Breast Cancer Treatment!Surgery
Patrick Borgen and Bruce Mann

Adjuvant Therapy of Breast Cancer
Maura N. Dickler

Treatment!Radiation
Karen D. Schupak

Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping
Arnold D.K. Hill

Hereditary Breast Cancer
Mark E. Robson


Companion Books

Surgical Oncology
David N. Krag

Radioguided Surgery
Eric D Whitman, Douglas Reintgen