A Practical Guide to Breast Cancer Treatment

This book presents expert viewpoints on the diverse situations faced by practitioners in their daily practice when caring for patients with breast cancer, with focuses on the patient-centered treatment process. It provides the entire process of different patient cases from patient history, radiologic examination, pathologic results, surgical outcome and medical treatment.

The aim is to equip readers with all the knowledge required in order to implement appropriate case-by-case approaches in the real world, where circumstances frequently differ from the typical or straightforward scenarios depicted in textbooks and articles. The book will serve as a practice guideline for novices less familiar with the field, but it will also be a valuable aid for more experienced practitioners and will even offer assistance in research planning. Furthermore, the book will help some patient to infer their own treatment by using similar cases as a model.

Presents expert approaches to management of breast cancer Emphasizes how the real world often different from the standard scenarios describes in textbooks Explains basic guidelines of breast cancer

Autorentext
Eun Sook Lee, MD., PhD, Center for Breast Cancer, Hospital, Department of Cancer Biomedical Science, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Korea.

Current address : President of LiLiU Breast Clinic, 176 Bongeunsa_Ro, Seoul, Korea

Inhalt
1.Brief overview of breast cancer treatment.- 2. Detection and Diagnosis of Breast cancer.-3. Precancerous Case series.- 4. Brief overview of breast cancer treatment (surgery, RT, endocrine, target, chemotherapy).- 5. Carcinoma in situ phase.- 6. HR(+) HER2(-) breast cancer.- 7. HR(+) HER2(+) breast cancer.- 8. HR(-) HER2(+) breast cancer.- 9. HR(-) HER2(-) breast cancer.- 10. Local recurrence.- 11. Metastatic breast cancer.- 12. Summaries of treatment roadmap.<p