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ABC of Breast Diseases - Opis książki Covers all the recent advances in screening, helping with the assessment of symptoms, prognosis and treatments of breast diseases Breast diseases are becoming more and more common and health professionals in almost every field will probably come into contact with a patient who has a breast disorder. This third edition provides an account of the current knowledge on benign and malignant breast conditions and the treatment of them.It covers all the recent advances in screening and adjuvant treatment, including the new aromatase inhibitor clinical trials and improvements in metastatic disease treatment. New chapters on prognosis and clinical trials have also been added.Edited and written by experts in the field, this book appeals to a wide readership including general practitioners, practice nurses, breast care nurses, surgeons or oncologists in training, and medical students. It contains such a wealth of knowledge it will also be a valuable source of information for established breast surgeons and oncologists.Helping to assist the assessment of symptoms, prognosis and treatments of breast diseases.
ABC of Breast Diseases - Spis treści
1 Symptoms, assessment, and guidelines for referral
2 Congenital problems and aberrations of normal development and involution
3 Mastalgia
4 Breast infection
5 Breast cancer - epidemiology, risk factors, and genetics
6 Screening for breast cancer
7 Breast cancer
8 Management of regional nodes in breast cancer
9 Breast cancer: treatment of elderly patients and uncommon conditions
10 Role of systemic treatment of primary operable breast cancer
11 Locally advanced breast cancer
12 Metastatic breast cancer
13 Prognostic factors
14 Clinical trials of management of early breast cancer
15 Psychological aspects
16 Carcinoma in situ and patients at high risk of breast cancer
17 Breast reconstruction
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