Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsContributors 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
