High-Risk Breast Cancer Diagnosis / edited by Joseph Ragaz, Irving M. Ariel.

The most meaningful reward to clinicians and researchers is the absence of recurrent malignancy in their patients. While in some patients the disease will be cured by resection alone, in other similarly staged cases the disease will recur despite adequate loco regional and systemic therapies. Hence,...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ragaz, Joseph (Editor), Ariel, Irving M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1989.
Edition:1st ed. 1989.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • High-Risk Breast Cancer: Definition of the Risk
  • Epidemiology
  • Breast Cancer Risk and Chemoprevention
  • Oncogenes
  • Genetic Aspects of Human Breast Cancer
  • Significance of Oncogenes in Breast Cancer: Review
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Measurement of DNA Content of Archival Material as a Guide to Prognosis
  • Flow Cytometry in the Management of Breast Cancer
  • The Role of Fine-Needle Aspiration in Determining the Risk of Breast Cancer
  • Tumor Kinetics
  • Measurements of Cellular Proliferation and DNA in Breast Carcinoma
  • Tumor Kinetics in Experimental Mammary Carcinoma
  • Receptors
  • Hormone Receptors and Risk in Breast Cancer
  • Overview of the Prognostic and Clinical Correlates of Steroid Hormone Receptors in Human Breast Cancer
  • Pathology
  • Identification of Risk Factors by Conventional Pathologic and Some Ancillary Techniques in Women with Breast Cancer
  • Mammography
  • The Role of Mammographic Screening in the Control of Breast Cancer: An Overview
  • The Role of Screening Mammography in Determining Risk in Breast Lesions
  • Immunology
  • The Role of Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies in Assessing Risk in Breast Cancer
  • A Review of the Role of Immune Reactants in Patients with High-Risk Breast Carcinoma
  • General
  • Growth Regulation of Breast Cancer
  • In Vitro Predictive Sensitivity Testing in the Therapeutic Assessment of Breast Cancer
  • The Role of Chromosome Analysis in the Investigation of Breast Cancer.