Textbook of Breast Cancer provides a full update of the area, focusing in particular upon the topics where there has been most progress and controversy.

Contents

1. Epidemiology and Risk Factors: An Update
2. Morphological Diagnosis: New Methods and Techniques, and the Necessity for Tumor Banking
3. New Imaging Techniques: MRI, PET, PET-CT, Screening for High Risk Patients
4. The New Staging Classification: Is it Useful for Clinicians
5. Molecular Markers for Treatment Decision
6. Proteomics of Breast Cancer
7. New Issues in Breast Cancer Surgical Management
8. New Issues in Radiotherapy Management
9. Primary Systemic Therapy for Operable Breast Cancer: Present Role and Perspectives
10. Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy: Controversies and Perspectives
11. Conventional Adjuvant Chemotherapy: Where Are We 30 Years Later
12. Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Advances in Molecular Genetics and Treatment
13. Controversies in the Management of Metastatic Breast Cancer
14. The Role of High-Dose Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer
15. New Agents and Innovative Strategies for the Treatment of Breast Cancer
16. Quality of Life and Psychological Issues
17. Breast Cancer Prevention: An Update
18. Treatment of Special Breast Cancer Patients
19. Individualized Therapy of Breast Cancer: A Dream or a Reality

Index

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