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This text is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to the management of breast cancer within the fields of surgery, medical oncology, and radiation oncology. Sections address changes in these fields. These areas include breast imaging, management of the axilla, atypical breast lesions, surgical margins, new techniques in breast reconstruction, and nipple sparing and contralateral mastectomies. Subsequent chapters focus on issues in medical oncology including, triple negative breast cancer and metastatic breast disease. New paradigms in radiation oncology are examined. Breast cancer treatment in the elderly and in young women, and genetic risk in breast cancer management is also be discussed. Written by experts in their field, each of these sections addresses advances and changes in the field. A brief review of the existing literature addressing the particular topic follows in each section. The text concludes with chapters on pathological issues and advances in radiation oncology.
As access to a comprehensive multidisciplinary resource such as this is currently limited in the literature, Changing Paradigms in the Management of Breast Cancer represents the first single source to provide information on advances and outcomes for the physician caring for breast cancer patients in a multidisciplinary setting.
List of contents
Breast Imaging: Tomosynthesis, Elastography, Breast MRI, and Emerging Techniques.- Nipple Sparing Mastectomy.- Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: Current Perspectives.- Management of the Axilla in Breast Cancer.- Margins and Breast Cancer.- Percutaneous Ablation in the Treatment of Breast Cancer.- New Technology and Techniques in Breast Reconstruction.- New Thoughts on Atypias of the Breast: Flat Epithelial Atypia, Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia, and Lobular Neoplasia.- New Techniques in Radiation Oncology.- Radiotherapy and Regional Nodes.- Triple Negative Breast Cancer.- New Treatments for Metastatic Breast Cancer.- Breast Cancer Treatment in Elderly Patients.- Breast Cancer Treatment in Young Women.- Genetic Risk Prediction in Breast Cancer
About the author
Marissa Howard-McNatt, MD
Director Breast Care Center
Associate Professor of Surgery
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Medical Center BLVD
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
Summary
This text is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to the management of breast cancer within the fields of surgery, medical oncology, and radiation oncology. Sections address changes in these fields. These areas include breast imaging, management of the axilla, atypical breast lesions, surgical margins, new techniques in breast reconstruction, and nipple sparing and contralateral mastectomies. Subsequent chapters focus on issues in medical oncology including, triple negative breast cancer and metastatic breast disease. New paradigms in radiation oncology are examined. Breast cancer treatment in the elderly and in young women, and genetic risk in breast cancer management is also be discussed. Written by experts in their field, each of these sections addresses advances and changes in the field. A brief review of the existing literature addressing the particular topic follows in each section. The text concludes with chapters on pathological issues and advances in radiation oncology.
As access to a comprehensive multidisciplinary resource such as this is currently limited in the literature, Changing Paradigms in the Management of Breast Cancer represents the first single source to provide information on advances and outcomes for the physician caring for breast cancer patients in a multidisciplinary setting.
