Diseases of the breast / edited by Jay R. Harris, MD, professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Marc E. Lippman, MD, MACP, Kathleen & Stanley Glaser Professor, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, Monica Morrow, MD, Anne Burnett Windfohr Chair of Clinical Oncology, Chief, Breast Surgery Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, C. Kent Osborne, MD, The Tina and Dudley Sharp Chair of Oncology, Professor of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Director, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Director, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Cancer, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Jay R., editor.

Lippman, Marc E., 1945- editor.

Morrow, Monica, editor.

Osborne, C. Kent, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Standardized Title:

Diseases of the breast (Harris)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Cancer.

Breast.

Breast--Diseases.

Breast Neoplasms--diagnosis.

Breast Neoplasms--therapy.

Breast Diseases.

Breast Neoplasms.

Medical Subjects:

Breast Neoplasms--diagnosis.

Breast Neoplasms--therapy.

Breast Diseases.

Breast Neoplasms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 1196 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Expand your knowledge of every aspect of breast diseases as a diverse and distinguished group of internationally-recognized experts summarize the current knowledge, including biology and epidemiology, clinical features, and management. Ideal for any clinician seeing patients with breast disease, especially carcinoma of the breast, this full color 5thEdition of the authoritative text in the field is designed to foster the understanding necessary to provide optimal patient care.

Contents:

Breast anatomy and development. Breast anatomy and development

Stem cells in breast development and carcinogenesis: concepts and clinical perspectives

Diagnosis and management of benign breast disease. Physical examination of the breast

Management of the palpable breast mass

Management of disorders of the ductal system and infections

Management of breast pain

Abnormalities of the breast in pregnancy and lactation

Management of gynecomastia

Pathology of benign breast disorders

Breast imaging and image-guided biopsy techniques. Breast cancer screening

Imaging analysis: mammography

Imaging analysis: ultrasonography

Imaging analysis: magnetic resonance imaging

New breast imaging techniques

Image-guided biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions

Epidemiology and assessing and managing risk. Inherited genetic factors and breast cancer

Genetic testing and management of patients with hereditary breast cancer

Nongenetic factors in the causation of breast cancer

Management of other high risk patients

Chemoprevention

In situ carcinoma. Ductal carcinoma in situ and other intraductal lesions: pathology, immunohistochemistry, and molecular alterations

Lobular carcinoma in situ: biology and management

Ductal carcinoma in situ and microinvasive carcinoma

Pathology and biological markers of invasive breast cancer. Genomic events in breast cancer progression

Pathology of invasive breast cancer

Estrogen and progesterone receptor testing for prognosis and prediction

HER2/ERBB2 testing: assessment of status for targeted therapies

Clinical and pathologic prognostic and predictive factors

Genomics, prognosis, and therapeutic interventions

Bone marrow micrometastases and circulating tumor cells

Management of primary invasive breast cancer. Evaluation of patients for metastasis prior to primary therapy

Staging of breast cancer

Mastectomy

Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy

Breast-conserving therapy

Breast reconstruction

Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Axillary dissection

Preserving and restoring function after local treatment

Lymphedema

Local management of the axilla

Postmastectomy radiation therapy

Adjuvant systemic therapy: endocrine therapy

Adjuvant systemic chemotherapy in early breast cancer

Adjuvant chemo endocrine therapy

Adjuvant and preoperative systemic therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer

Adjuvant systemic therapy: bone-targeted treatments

Pharmacogenomics of systemic therapy

Implications of obesity in breast cancer

Lifestyle issues in breast cancer survivors

Management of menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors

Long-term and late effects of primary curative intent therapy: neurocognitive, cardiac, and secondary malignancies

Adjuvant systemic therapy treatment guidelines.

Preoperative systemic therapy. Preoperative chemotherapy for operable breast cancer

Preoperative endocrine therapy for operable breast cancer

Pathologic assessment of treatment response after neoadjuvant therapy

Local-regional therapy following systemic treatment

Locally advanced breast cancer

Inflammatory breast cancer

Preoperative systemic therapy for breast cancer

Special therapeutic problems. Male breast cancer

Phyllodes tumors

Paget's disease

Nonepithelial malignancies of the breast

Breast cancer during pregnancy and subsequent pregnancy in breast cancer survivors

Occult primary cancer with axillary metastases

Evaluation after primary therapy and management of recurrent breast cancer. Surveillance of patients following primary therapy

Surgery for the primary in patients with distant metastases

Management of local regional recurrences after primary breast cancer treatment

Treatment of metastatic breast cancer: endocrine

Treatment of metastatic breast cancer: chemotherapy

Treatment of HER2-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer

Palliative care in breast cancer

Management summary for the care of patients with metastatic breast cancer

New breast cancer therapeutic approaches. Newer targeted therapy

Site-specific therapy of metastatic breast cancer. Brain metastases

Metastatic epidural spinal cord compression

Leptomeningeal metastasis

Brachial plexopathy in patients with breast cancer

Ophthalmic metastases

Management of isolated liver metastases

Medical treatment for bone metastases

Local management of bone metastases

Breast cancer in specific populations. Breast cancer in older women

Breast cancer in younger women

Breast cancer in minority women

Issues in breast cancer survivorship. Nursing care in patient management and quality of life

Overview of survivorship issues

Psychosocial adaptation during and after breast cancer

Reproductive issues in breast cancer survivors

Cost and cost effectiveness considerations.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Diseases of the breast.

ISBN:

9781496305930

1496305930

9781469889160

1469889161

9781469884073

1469884070

OCLC:

884519656