ABC of Breast Diseases / Edition 4

by J. Michael Dixon

Overview

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.

Edited and written by internationally renowned experts in the field and highly illustrated in full colour, this fourth edition remains a practical guide for general practitioners, family physicians, practice nurses and breast care nurses as well as for surgeons and oncologists both in training and recently qualified as well as medical students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444337969
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/08/2012
Series:	ABC Series , #226
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

J Michael Dixon, Consultant Surgeon and Professor of Surgery, Edinburgh Breast Unit, and Clinical Director, Breakthrough Research Unit, Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

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Table of Contents

Contributors vii

Preface ix

1 Symptoms Assessment and Guidelines for Referral 1
J Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas

2 Congenital Problems and Aberrations of Normal Development and Involution 12
J Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas

3 Mastalgia 25
Julie Iddon and J Michael Dixon

4 Breast Infection 31
J Michael Dixon

5 Breast Cancer: Epidemiology Risk Factors and Genetics 41
Ivana Sestak Jack Cuzick and Gareth Evans

6 Prevention of Breast Cancer 47
Ivana Sestak Jack Cuzick Gareth Evans and Ava Kwong

7 Screening for Breast Cancer 51
Robin Wilson Douglas Macmillan and Julietta Patnick

8 Breast Cancer 59
J Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas

9 Management of Regional Nodes in Breast Cancer 68
Nigel Bundred J Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas

10 Breast Cancer: Treatment of Elderly Patients and Uncommon Conditions 77
J Michael Dixon and Richard Sainsbury

11 Role of Systemic Treatment of Primary Operable Breast Cancer 86
AA Kotsori and Ian Smith

12 Locally Advanced Breast Cancer 102
J Michael Dixon and Robert Leonard

13 Metastatic Breast Cancer 109
Robert Leonard and J Michael Dixon

14 Prognostic Factors 119
Alastair Thompson and Sarah Pinder

15 Psychological Impact of Breast Cancer 125
Belinda Hacking

16 Carcinoma in situ 130
Nigel Bundred and J Michael Dixon

17 Breast Reconstruction 138
J Michael Dixon Cameron Raine and Eva M Weiler-Mithoff

Index 151

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"...an up-to-date, concise, clear, superbly illustrated (pictures, tables and diagrams), evidence-based work that covers all the various aspects of breast cancer (including breast reconstruction, male breast cancer etc.), as well as benign breast conditions.
[The authors]...are also commended for their balanced, nuanced account of breast cancer. They describe what 'we think we know and understand' as well as the challenges, uncertainties and unknowns of breast diseases. The book provides a thorough overview of adjuvant therapy (including the new aromatase inhibitor trails) and metastatic breast cancer, as well as excellent chapters on the systematic treatment of primary operable breast cancer (with reference to ongoing trials) and on clinical trials on the management of early breast cancer. Highly recommended for all non-specialists interested in this topic." (Cancerworld, May-June 2006)

Editorial Reviews

"...an up-to-date, concise, clear, superbly illustrated (pictures, tables and diagrams), evidence-based work that covers all the various aspects of breast cancer (including breast reconstruction, male breast cancer etc.), as well as benign breast conditions.
[The authors]...are also commended for their balanced, nuanced account of breast cancer. They describe what 'we think we know and understand' as well as the challenges, uncertainties and unknowns of breast diseases. The book provides a thorough overview of adjuvant therapy (including the new aromatase inhibitor trails) and metastatic breast cancer, as well as excellent chapters on the systematic treatment of primary operable breast cancer (with reference to ongoing trials) and on clinical trials on the management of early breast cancer. Highly recommended for all non-specialists interested in this topic." (Cancerworld, May-June 2006)

From the Publisher