Early Breast Cancer provides a comprehensive and contemporary account of the subject and should permit the reader to develop a firm understanding of the disease from epidemiology, genetics and screening, to pathology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Features:

• Includes a separate chapter on the biological basis for breast cancer screening and its relevance to current screening strategies both within the NHS screening programme and elsewhere.
• Offers a critical appraisal of breast screening in women over and more controversially under 50 years of age where transatlantic differences in practice exist
• Includes a chapter on radiology of benign breast lesions and the emerging role of newer techniques such as MRI and PET scanning
• Contains comprehensive coverage of breast pathology from normal and benign breast lesions, through pre-malignant, in situ and finally invasive carcinoma

Contents

• Risk assessment and prevention of breast cancer
• Breast cancer screening
• Imaging of the breast
• Methods of obtaining tissue for diagnosis
• Breast pathology
• Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer
• Consent and litigation

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