Synopses & Reviews
This wide-ranging modern account will be essential for breast cancer specialists, trainees in oncology and clinical research scientists.
Synopsis
The volume spans prevention, screening, genetics, and treatment of pre-invasive breast cancer, before focusing in depth on modern management of established breast cancer. This includes chapters on the various therapeutic options available and their role in treating breast cancer at different stages. It concludes with a chapter on palliative care.
About the Author
Zenon Rayter is Consultant Surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. He is Director of the Bristol Breast Unit, Chairman of the Breast Site Specialist Group of Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire Cancer Services, and Vice President of the Surgical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.Janine Mansi is Consultant Medical Oncologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George's Hospital Medical School, Regional Speciality Advisor for Medical Oncology for South West London and an executive member of the Association of Cancer Physicians.
Table of Contents
1. History of breast cancer therapy Zenon Rayter; 2. Chemoprevention of breast cancer Tamas Hickish; 3. Familial breast cancer H. Gogas and V. Murday; 4. Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer J. Marsden and N. P. M. Sacks; 5. Screening for breast cancer R. Given-Wilson; 6. The management of in situ breast cancer Zenon Rayter; 7. Adjuvant systemic therapy T. R. J. Evans; 8. Adjuvant radiotherapy in the management of breast cancer G. Ross, David Landau and A. Tutt; 9a. Cell kinetic parameters and response to therapy R. S. Camplejohn; 9b. Predictors of response and resistance to medical therapy - endocrine therapy Zenon Rayter; 9c. Predictors of response and resistance to medical therapy - chemotherapy S. R. D. Johnson; 10. Primary medical therapy in breast cancer J. L. Mansi; 11. Medical therapy of advanced disease Alison Jones and K. McAdam; 12a. High dose chemotherapy in breast cancer John Crown and R. C. F. Leonard; 12b. New immunological approaches to treatment for breast cancer A. G. Dalgleish; 13. The place of bisphosphonates in the management of breast cancer A. H. G. Paterson; 14. Palliative care in breast cancer Janet Hardy.