High-Risk Breast Cancer: Therapy - Brossura

 
9783642747304: High-Risk Breast Cancer: Therapy

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This volume continues the approach taken by the authors in a previous publication dealing with high-risk breast cancer. This second volume focuses on the therapy itself, whereas the first discussed how to evaluate the risk at diagnosis.

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Contenuti

Therapeutic Highlights of High-Risk Breast Cancer: Comments Related to Surgery, Radiotherapy, and Hormonal Therapy.- General.- Metastasis as a Determinant of Risk in Breast Cancer.- Comments on Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects of High-Risk Breast Cancer.- Role of Preoperative Therapy in High-Risk Breast Cancer: Review.- Surgery.- The Role of Surgery in the Treatment of Breast Cancer: Historical Review and Current Status.- High-Risk Breast Cancer: Bilaterality.- Conservative Surgery and Radiation Therapy for Early Breast Cancer.- Radiotherapy.- The Role of Radiation Therapy in High-Risk Breast Cancer.- Hormonal Therapy.- The Role of Prolonged Antihormonal Treatment of Breast Cancer: A Strategy for Adjuvant Therapy.- Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy: Its Role in Primary Breast Cancer.- Chemotherapy―General.- Therapeutic Highlights of High-Risk Breast Cancer: Comments Related to Adjuvant Chemotherapy, Its Intensity, Duration, and Quality of Life.- Dose Intensity of Chemotherapy in High-Risk Breast Cancer.- Therapy―Adjuvant.- Trials of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Operable Breast Cancer.- Adjuvant Chemotherapy Programs in Node-Negative Breast Cancer.- Adjuvant Chemotherapy of High-Risk Postmenopausal Breast Cancer.- Chemotherapy―Metastatic.- Intensive Treatment Considerations in Breast Cancer.- Anthracyclines and Anthracenediones in the Management of Breast Cancer.- Inflammatory Breast Cancer.- Inflammatory Breast Cancer.- Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma: The Experience of the Centre Jean Perrin.- What to Expect from Deep Cutaneous Biopsies in Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma.- Stage III Breast Cancer.- Locally Advanced Breast Cancer.- Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: A Review including the M.D. Anderson Experience.- Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: The National Cancer Institute Experience.- Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation.- Dose Intensification Using High-Dose Combination Alkylating Agents and Autologous Bone Marrow Support in the Treatment of Primary and Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Review of the Duke Bone Marrow Transplantation Program Experience.- High-Dose Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer.- Therapeutic Aspects of Tumor Biology Research.- Therapeutic Implications of Recent Growth Factor Research.- Summary.- Future and Developmental Aspects of High-Risk Breast Cancer Therapy.

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