Medical Therapy of Breast Cancer

ISBN-13: 9780521496322 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 414 str.

Zenon Rayter; Janine Mansi

Opis

This new publication discusses the significant advances in the study, investigation and treatment of breast cancer and surveys how scientific advances have influenced, improved, and extended modern therapeutic options. 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 volume includes chapters on the various therapeutic options available and their role in treating breast cancer from the very earliest stage through to advanced and metastatic breast cancer, as well as a chapter on palliative care. In addition, the text looks forward at the potential for emerging experimental strategies to become adopted into medical management in the future.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'This is a commendable edition and the contents are succinct to modern clinical practice of this disease.' SAMJ Forum

Spis treści

List of contributors; 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 Rosalind Given-Wilson; 6. The management of in situ breast cancer Zenon Rayter; 7. Adjuvant systematic therapy T. R. J. Evans; 8. Adjuvant radiotherapy in the management of breast cancer Gillian Ross, David Landau and Andrew 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 Stephen R. D. Johnson; 10. Primary medical therapy in breast cancer Janine L. Mansi; 11. Medical therapy of advanced disease Alison Jones and Karen 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; Index.