This title presents screening, diagnosis and multi-modality treatment as well as topics particular to this disease site including postmenopausal health, the pregnant patient, rehabilitation and genetic predisposition. Dozens of algorithms, schema, and tables present practice guidelines, chemotherapeutic regimens, and summaries of randomized clinical trials. Key practice points appear at the end of every chapter.

Klappentext

I am honored to write the Foreword for this first volume of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Care series, because I believe the book represents a milestone not only for M. D. Anderson but also for cancer specialists everywhere. All of us, whether we work in academic medical institu­ tions, medical school hospitals, community hospitals, oncology clinics, or solo practice, have seen remarkable changes in our practice over the recent decades. We know that breast cancer patients live longer, feel better, and look better than ever before, and they face this dreaded disease with more optimism than ever before. Each of us deserves to be proud of this progress. Though I am now primarily a laboratory scientist and admin­ istrator, I am proud of my own work on factors that control the growth of tumor cells, most prominently through regulation of EGF receptors and HER-2/neu, and the promise that work holds for women who have breast cancer. The authors represented in this volume have made important contri­ butions to breast cancer care. Likewise, every reader of this book has and will continue to make critical contributions to the health of women with breast cancer. I would like to express the hope here that each of us takes the opportunity to step outside our subspecialties-surgeon, internist, radiation oncologist, pathologist, radiologist, laboratory scientist-and learn how we can better integrate our work with that of other specialists.

Inhalt

1 Multidisciplinary Care of the Breast Cancer Patient: Overview and Implementation.- 2 Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer and Screening for Early Detection of Breast Cancer.- 3 Genetic Predisposition to Breast Cancer.- 4 Mammography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Breast, and Radionuclide Imaging of the Breast.- 5 Breast Sonography.- 6 Core Needle Biopsy and Needle Localization Biopsy of Nonpalpable Breast Lesions: Technical Considerations and Diagnostic Challenges.- 7 Surgical Options for Breast Cancer.- 8 Reconstructive Surgery.- 9 Radiation Therapy for Early and Advanced Breast Disease.- 10 Serum and Tissue Markers for Breast Cancer.- 11 Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer.- 12 High-Dose Chemotherapy as Treatment for High-Risk Primary and Metastatic Breast Cancer.- 13 Endocrine Therapy for Breast Cancer.- 14 Gynecologic Problems in Patients with Breast Cancer.- 15 Special Clinical Situations in Patients with Breast Cancer.- 16 Rehabilitation of Patients with Breast Cancer.- 17 Menopausal Health after Breast Cancer.- 18 Management of Sexual Problems in Women with Breast Cancer.