Breast Cancer

A reference on multi-modality care for breast cancer. Specialists address the status of breast imaging, breast pathology, the role of breast surgery, including management of in situ and early stage carcinoma, prophylatic mastectomy, auxillary node dissection, sentinel node and lymphatic mapping.

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A reference on state-of-the-art multi-modality care for breast cancer. Divided into five sections, the text presents specialists addressing the status of breast imaging, breast pathology, the role of breast surgery, including management of "in situ" and early stage carcinoma, prophylatic mastectomy, auxillary node dissection, sentinel node and lymphatic mapping, and outpatient mastectomy. They also cover special selected topics featuring breast cancer in pregnancy, inflammatory breast cancer and breast sarcoma. There is a section on future research, reviewing on-going use on "in situ" laser ablation, cryosurgery and translational research.