Breast cancer : fundamentals of evidence-based disease management

Breast cancer : fundamentals of evidence-based disease management / I. Craig Henderson.

This volume provides an in-depth understanding of the biology of breast cancer, the natural history of the disease, the use of molecular markers, the interpretation of clinical trial data, and the integration of multiple therapeutic modalities. Outcomes of clinical trials and details about commonly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henderson, I. Craig (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Breast > Cancer.
Breast > Pathophysiology.
Cancer > Adjuvant treatment.
Combined modality therapy.
Cancer invasiveness.
Metastasis.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Metastasis
Combined modality therapy
Cancer invasiveness
Breast > Cancer
Cancer > Adjuvant treatment
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Table of Contents:
  • Epidemiology and risk factors for breast cancer
  • Primary and secondary prevention of breast cancer
  • Premalignant changes and in situ carcinoma
  • Natural history of invasive breast cancer
  • Histology of breast cancer
  • Clinical and pathological staging
  • Molecular factors as prognostic/predictive tools and therapeutic targets
  • Diagnosis, work-up, and follow-up of breast cancer patients
  • Treatment of the breast and regional lymph nodes surgery and radiation therapy
  • Adjuvant systemic therapy
  • Neoadjuvant therapy and locally-advanced or inflammatory breast cancer
  • Management of metastatic disease.

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