Case Studies in Breast Cancer

by Adrian Harnett

• ISBN13: 9781841100548
• ISBN10: 1841100544
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media

Summary

Featuring 37 detailed case studies, with comprehensive explanatory text and full colour illustrations, this book provides any healthcare professional involved in breast cancer with clear guidelines and helpful pointers on the aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of this important and widespread condition. All cases are based on real cases encountered by the author, and provide the reader with realistic scenarios against which to judge their own treatment decisions and upon which to base teaching sessions.

Table of Contents

1. Breast conservation or mastectomy?

2. The influence of coexisting disease

3. The difficult diagnosis

4. Sequential bilateral breast carcinoma

5. Genetic disease

6. Cancer family syndrome

7. HRT and other hormonal issues

8. Adoption after breast cancer

9. Breast cancer in pregnancy

10. The doctor patient

11. The high risk patient

12. The unfit patient

13. Pregnancy after cancer

14. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

15. Acute illness

16. Metastatic disease-or not?

17. The internet patient

18. Breast cancer and pregnancy

19. Resistant inflammatory breast carcinoma

20. Axillary lymphadenopathy

21. The unusual tumour

22. The professional sportswoman

23. Late stage disease in pregnancy

24. Hormone sensitive disease

25. Receptor negative disease?

26. Solitary bone metastases

27. The orthopaedic challenge

28. Aggressive metastatic disease

29. Responsive metastatic disease

30. Unusual sites of metastatic disease (1)

31. Unusual sites of metastatic disease (2)

32. The neglected tumour and unconventional management

33. Extensive soft tissue disease

34. Male breast cancer

35. Spinal cord compression

36. Recurrent spinal cord compression

37. Brachial plexopathy (1)

38. Brachial plexopathy (2)

39. Brain metastases

Appendices

Index.