Excluding skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring in women and certainly the most feared. In Breast Cancer: A Guide to Detection and Multidisciplinary Therapy, Michael H. Torosian, MD, and a panel of physicians and clinical researchers critically synthesize the wide variety of treatment options available to create a state-of-the-art reference for the management of breast cancer patients. Writing from a multidisciplinary perspective, these authoritative contributors review in the light of the most recent findings the major clinical aspects of breast cancer, including epidemiology and risk factors, breast imaging, biopsy techniques, breast-conserving surgery and reconstruction, mastectomy, and the latest developments in radiation, hormonal, and chemotherapy. Their expert discussion also addresses special clinical situations (adjuvant chemotherapy, axillary adenopathy as initial presentation, breast cancer during pregnancy, and sarcoma and lymphoma of the breast) and explains current clinical controversies (breast-conserving surgery without radiation therapy, axillary lymph node management, and management of internal mammary lymph nodes). Also spelled out are the potential implications of stem cell transplantation, immunotherapy, and gene therapy for the management of breast cancer patients in the future.
Multidisciplinary and clinically invaluable, Breast Cancer: A Guide to Detection and Multidisciplinary Therapy offers physicians and health care personnel an understandable state-of-the-art guide to the best care of breast cancer patients available today.

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Michael H. Torosian, MD, and a panel of physicians and clinical researchers critically synthesize the wide variety of treatment options available to create a state-of-the-art reference for the management of breast cancer patients. Writing from a multidisciplinary perspective, these authoritative contributors review in the light of the most recent findings the major clinical aspects of breast cancer, including, epidemiology and risk factors, breast imaging, biopsy techniques, breast-conserving surgery and reconstruction, mastectomy, and the latest developments in radiation, hormonal, and chemotherapy. Their expert discussion also addresses special clinical situations (adjuvant chemotherapy, axillary adenopathy as initial presentation, breast cancer during pregnancy, and sarcoma and lymphoma of the breast) and explains current clinical controversies (breast-conserving surgery without radiation therapy, axillary lymph node management, and management of internal mammary lymph nodes).

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Part I. Clinical Management Epidemiology and Clinical Risk Factors Mary B. Daly Breast Imaging Julia A. Birnbaum and Emily F. Conant Breast Biopsy Techniques Lisa A. Newman and Frederick C. Ames Clinical Classification of Breast Cancer Michael H. Torosian Breast-Conserving Surgery: Lumpectomy With or Without Axillary Dissection Samuel W. Beenken and Kirby I. Bland Mastectomy David R. Brenin and David W. Kinne Breast Reconstruction Louis P. Bucky and Gary A. Tuma Radiation Therapy Barbara Fowble and Gary Freedman Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Michael P. Russin and Lori J. Goldstein Hormonal Therapy of Breast Cancer Halle C. F. Moore and Kevin R. Fox The Role of Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer Lori Jardines Male Breast Cancer Mahmoud El-Tamer and Lucy J. Kim Oncogenes in the Development of Breast Cancer Xiao Tan Qiao, Kenneth L. van Golen, and Sofia D. Merajver Part II. Special Clinical Situations Primary Chemotherapy Deborah L. Toppmeyer Axillary Adenopathy as the Initial Presentation of Breast Cancer Shirley Scott and Monica Morrow Breast Cancer During Pregnancy Mary L. Gemignani and Jeanne A. Petrek Local-Regional Recurrence in Breast Cancer Thomas J. Kearney and David A. August Nipple Discharge Marcia Boraas Sarcoma and Lymphoma of the Breast: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment Helena Chang and Jane Kakki Part III. Current Controversies And Research Breast Conservation Without Radiation Therapy for Carcinoma of the Breast Gordon F. Schwartz. Axillary Node Dissection in Breast Cancer James F. Pingpank Jr. and Ellen R. Sigurdson Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes: Management and Other Controversies James C. Watson and John P. Hoffman High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for Breast Cancer Edward A. Stadtmauer Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy for Breast Cancer Daniela Santoli and Sophie Visonneau