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 ofbreast 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 andhighly 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. INDICE: PrefaceContributors1 Symptoms, assessment, and guidelines for referralMichael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas2 Congenital problems and aberrations of normal development and involutionMichael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas3 MastalgiaMichael Dixon and Julie Iddon4 Breast infectionMichael Dixon5 Breast cancer - epidemiology, risk factors and geneticsJack Cuzick, Gareth Evans and Michael Dixon6Prevention of Breast CancerIvana Sestak, Jack Cuzick, Gareth Evans, Ava Kwong7 Screening for breast cancerA R M Wilson8 Breast cancerMichael Dixon9 Management of regional nodes in breast cancerNigel Bundred and Michael Dixon10 Breastcancer: treatment of elderly patients and uncommon conditionsMichael Dixon11 Role of systemic treatment of primary operable breast cancerIan Smith12 Locally advanced breast cancerRobert Leonard and Michael Dixon13 Metastatic breast cancerRobert Leonard and Michael Dixon14 Prognostic factorsAlastair M Thompson and Sarah Pinder15 Psychological aspectsBelinda Hacking16 Carcinoma in situ and patients at high risk of breast cancerNigel Bundred17 Breast ReconstructionCameron Raine and EM Weiler-MithoffIndex
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3796-9
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 120
- Fecha Publicación: 29/06/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés