Diseases of the breast / / edited by Jay R. Harris, MD, professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Marc E. Lippman, MD, MACP, Kathleen & Stanley Glaser Professor, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, Monica Morrow, MD, Anne Burnett Windfohr Chair of Clinical Oncology, Chief, Breast Surgery Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, C. Kent Osborne, MD, The Tina and Dudley Sharp Chair of Oncology, Professor of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Director, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Director, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Cancer, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827208403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia : , : Wolters Kluwer Health, , [2014]; �2014
• ISBN: 1-4963-0593-0; 1-4698-8916-1; 1-4698-8407-0
• Edizione: [Fifth edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 1196 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
• Collana: Gale eBooks
• Disciplina: 616.99/449
• Soggetti: Breast - Cancer; Breast - Diseases
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Diseases of the Breast""; ""DEDICATION""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION""; ""PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION""; ""CONTENTS""; ""SECTION I Breast Anatomy and Development""; ""Breast Anatomy and Development""; ""Stem Cells in Breast Development and Carcinogenesis: Concepts and Clinical Perspectives""; ""SECTION II Diagnosis and Management of Benign Breast Disease""; ""Physical Examination of the Breast""; ""Management of the Palpable Breast Mass""; ""Management of Disorders of the Ductal System and ; Infections""; ""Management of Breast Pain""; ""Abnormalities of the Breast in Pregnancy and Lactation""""Management of Gynecomastia""; ""Pathology of Benign Breast Disorders""; ""SECTION III Breast Imaging and ImageGuided Biopsy Techniques""; ""Breast Cancer Screening""; ""Imaging Analysis: Mammography""; ""Imaging Analysis: Ultrasonography""; ""Imaging Analysis: Magnetic Resonance Imaging""; ""New Breast Imaging Techniques""; ""Image-Guided Biopsy of Nonpalpable Breast Lesions""; ""SECTION IV Epidemiology and Assessing and Managing Risk""; ""Inherited Genetic Factors and Breast Cancer""; ""Genetic Testing and Management of Patients with Hereditary Breast Cancer""""Nongenetic Factors in the Causation of Breast Cancer""; ""Management of Other High Risk Patients""; ""Chemoprevention""; ""SECTION V In Situ Carcinoma""; ""Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Other Intraductal Lesions: Pathology, Immunohistochemistry, and Molecular Alterations""; ""Lobular Carcinoma In Situ: Biology and Management""; ""Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Microinvasive Carcinoma""; ""SECTION VI Pathology and Biological Markers of Invasive Breast Cancer""; ""Genomic Events in Breast Cancer Progression""; ""Pathology of Invasive Breast Cancer""""Estrogen and Progesterone Receptor Testing for Prognosis and Prediction""; ""HER2/ERBB2 Testing: Assessment of Status for Targeted Therapies""; ""Clinical and Pathologic Prognostic and Predictive Factors""; ""Genomics, Prognosis, and Therapeutic Interventions""; ""Bone Marrow Micrometastases and Circulating Tumor Cells""; ""SECTION VII Management of Primary Invasive Breast Cancer""; ""Evaluation of Patients for Metastasis Prior to Primary Therapy""; ""Staging of Breast Cancer""; ""Mastectomy""; ""Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy""; ""Breast-Conserving Therapy""""Breast Reconstruction""; ""Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy""; ""Axillary Dissection""; ""Preserving and Restoring Function after Local Treatment""; ""Lymphedema""; ""Local Management of the Axilla""; ""Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy""; ""Adjuvant Systemic Therapy: Endocrine Therapy""; ""Adjuvant Systemic Chemotherapy in Early Breast Cancer""; ""Adjuvant Chemo Endocrine Therapy""; ""Adjuvant and Preoperative Systemic Therapy for HER2Positive Breast Cancer""; ""Adjuvant Systemic Therapy: Bone-Targeted Treatments""; ""Pharmacogenomics of Systemic Therapy""; ""Implications of Obesity in Breast Cancer""
• Sommario/riassunto: Expand your knowledge of every aspect of breast diseases as a diverse and distinguished group of internationally-recognized experts summarize the current knowledge, including biology and epidemiology, clinical features, and management. Ideal for any clinician seeing patients with breast disease, especially carcinoma of the breast, this full color 5thEdition of the authoritative text in the field is designed to foster the understanding necessary to provide optimal patient care.