Breast cancer : fundamentals of evidence-based disease management /
I. Craig Henderson.
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Epidemiology and risk factors for breast cancer -- Primary and secondary prevention of breast cancer -- Premalignant changes and in situ carcinoma -- Natural history of invasive breast cancer -- Histology of breast cancer -- Clinical and pathological staging -- Molecular factors as prognostic/predictive tools and therapeutic targets -- Diagnosis, work-up, and follow-up of breast cancer patients -- Treatment of the breast and regional lymph nodes surgery and radiation therapy -- Adjuvant systemic therapy -- Neoadjuvant therapy and locally-advanced or inflammatory breast cancer -- Management of metastatic disease.
9780199390854
Breast--Pathophysiology. Combined modality therapy. Cancer invasiveness. Metastasis.