Breast cancer a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management

• Other Authors: Taghian, Alphonse G. (Editor), Smith, Barbara Lynn (Editor), Erban, John K. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Demos Medical Pub. 2010
• Series: Current multidisciplinary oncology
• Subjects: Breast Neoplasms > therapy
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Over the course of the last decade, the treatment of Breast Cancer has evolved quite rapidly. New scientific and clinical advances have modified the standard of care and led to improved patient outcomes. At the same time, the treatment of Breast Cancer has become increasingly complex, requiring the...

Table of Contents:

• Importance of the multidisciplinary approach to breast cancer / John K. Erban, Barbara L. Smith, and Alphonse G. Taghian
• Multidisciplinary approach to the prevention and screening of breast cancer
• Intake of new patients for multidisciplinary clinics / Martha Lake and Gwendolyn Mitchell
• Multidisciplinary issues for newly diagnosed patients
• Medical and surgical management of atypical hyperplasia and LCIS / Prakash K. Pandalai ... [et al.]
• Multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of DCIS
• Multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of early breast cancer
• Multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of locally advanced breast cancer
• Multidisciplinary approach in breast reconstruction
• Multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of metastatic disease
• Multidisciplinary approach in the management of locally recurrent disease
• Multidisciplinary approach to the patient's quality of life
• Psychiatric issues in breast cancer / Ilana Monica Braun and Donna Beth Greenberg
• Multidisciplinary considerations : racial disparities in breast cancer / Beverly Moy
• Multidisciplinary breast cancer care in the community / Karen Krag, Robin Schoenthaler, and Jeanne Yu
• Future directions in the treatment of breast cancer.