Medical Therapy of Breast Cancer
Medical Therapy of Breast Cancer
Janine Mansi, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London
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.
- Comprehensive account of all aspects of breast cancer management
- Extends from basic science to clinical practice
- Looks ahead at the prospects for emerging experimental strategies to become new therapeutic options
Reviews & endorsements
"The editors of this highly commendable publication have produced a most reader-friendly and informative reference book, which should not only be made available to those clinicians who deal with cancers of the breast, but also to researchers in the field and general practitioners." I.D. Werner, SAMJ Forum
Product details
January 2003Hardback
9780521496322
414 pages
256 × 179 × 26 mm
1.033kg
12 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- 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.
