Breast cancer
Subtitle: a guide to detection and multidisciplinary therapy
By: edited by Michael H. Torosian ; foreword by Robert C. Young.
Contributors: Torosian, Michael, 1952 Apr. 23-
Series: Current clinical oncology; Current clinical oncology (Totowa, N.J.)
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Breast -- Cancer.; Breast Neoplasms -- therapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Machine generated contents note: Foreword, Robert C. Young, MD; value: Preface; value: Contributors; value: I CLINICAL MANAGEMENT; value: 1 Epidemiology and Clinical Risk Factors; value: Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD; value: 2 Breast Imaging; value: Julia A. Birnbaum, MD, and Emily F. Conant, MD; value: 3 Breast Biopsy Techniques; value: Lisa A. Newman, MD, and Frederick C. Ames, MD; value: 4 Clinical Classifications of Breast Cancer; value: Michael H. Torosian, MD, FACS; value: 5 Breast-Conserving Surgery:; value: Lumpectomy With or Without Axillary Dissection; value: Samuel W. Beenken, MD, and Kirby L Bland, MD; value: 6 Mastectomy; value: David R. Brenin, MD, and David W. Kinne, MD; value: 7 Breast Reconstruction; value: Louis P. Bucky, MD, and Gary A. Tuma, MD; value: 8 Radiation Therapy; value: Barbara Fowble, MD, and Gary Freedman, MD; value: 9 Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer; value: Michael P. Russin, MD, and Lori J. Goldstein, MD; value: 10 Hormonal Therapy of Breast Cancer; value: Halle C. F. Moore, MD, and Kevin R. Fox, MD; value: 11 The Role of Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer; value: Lori Jardines, MD; value: 12 Male Breast Cancer; value: Mahmoud El-Tamer, MD, FACS, and Lucy J. Kim, MD; value: 13 Oncogenes in the Development of Breast Cancer; value: Xiao Tan Qiao, MD, Kenneth L. van Golen, PhD,; value: and Sofia D. Merajver, MD, PhD; value: II SPECIAL CLINICAL SITUATIONS; value: 14 Primary Chemotherapy; value: Deborah L. Toppmeyer, MD; value: 15 Axillary Adenopathy as the Initial Presentation of Breast Cancer; value: Shirley Scott, MD, and Monica Morrow, MD; value: 16 Breast Cancer During Pregnancy; value: Mary L. Gemignani, MD, and Jeanne A. Petrek, MD; value: 17 Local-Regional Recurrence in Breast Cancer; value: Thomas J. Kearney, MD, FACS, and David A. August, MD, FACS; value: 18 Nipple Discharge; value: Marcia Boraas, MD; value: 19 Sarcoma and Lymphoma of the Breast:; value: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment; value: Helena Chang, MD, PhD, and Jane Kakkis, MD; value: III CURRENT CONTROVERSIES AND RESEARCH; value: 20 Breast Conservation Without Radiation Therapy; value: for Carcinoma of the Breast; value: Gordon F. Schwartz, MD, MBA; value: 21 Axillary Node Dissection in Breast Cancer; value: James F. Pingpank, Jr., MD, and Elin R. Sigurdson, MD, PhD; value: 22 Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes: Management and Other Controversies; value: James C. Watson, MD, and John P. Hoffman, MD; value: 23 High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation; value: for Breast Cancer; value: Edward A. Stadtmauer, MD; value: 24 Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy for Breast Cancer; value: Daniela Santoli, PhD, and Sophie Visonneau, PhD; value: Index.