ABC of breast diseases / edited by J. Michael Dixon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dixon, J. M. (J. Michael)

Series:

ABC series (Malden, Mass.)

ABC series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Diseases.

Breast.

Breast--Tumors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 155 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, U.K. ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell : BMJ Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file html

Summary:

The ABC of Breast Diseases provides comprehensive guidance to the assessment of symptoms, and how to manage all common breast conditions and provides guidelines on referral. It covers congenital problems, breast infection and mastalgia, before addressing the epidemiology, prevention, screening and diagnosis of breast cancer. It outlines the treatment and management options for breast cancer within different groups and includes new chapters on the genetics, prevention, management of high risk women and the psychological aspects of breast diseases. -- Publisher

Contents:

Symptoms, assessment, and guidelines for referral / Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas

Congenital problems and aberrations of normal development and involution / Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas

Mastalgia / Michael Dixon and Julie Iddon

Breast infection / Michael Dixon

Breast cancer : epidemiology, risk factors, and genetics / Jack Cuzick, Gareth Evans, and Michael Dixon

Prevention of breast cancer / Ivana Sestak ... [et al.]

Screening for breast cancer / A.R.M. Wilson

Breast cancer / Michael Dixon

Management of regional nodes in breast cancer / Nigel Bundred and Michael Dixon

Breast cancer : treatment of elderly patients and uncommon conditions / Michael Dixon

Role of systemic treatment of primary operable breast cancer / Ian Smith

Locally advanced breast cancer / Robert Leonard and Michael Dixon

Metastatic breast cancer / Robert Leonard and Michael Dixon

Prognostic factors / Alastair M. Thompson and Sarah Pinder

Psychological aspects / Belinda Hacking

Carcinoma in situ and patients at high risk of breast cancer / Nigel Bundred

Breast reconstruction / Cameron Raine and E.M. Weiler-Mithoff.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-118-47186-5

1-118-47200-4

OCLC:

811407581