ABC of breast diseases / edited by J. Michael Dixon.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : BMJ, 2000.Edition: 2nd edDescription: x, 108 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. ports. ; 30 cmISBN:

9780727914613 (pbk.) :
0727912372

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DDC classification:

618.19 DIX

LOC classification:

RG491

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Summary: This rewritten, updated edition of a guide for doctors treating patients with benign and malignant breast disorders, includes all changes in practice during the 1990s. Each chapter is written by a doctor actively involved in the field.

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Previous ed.: 1995.

Includes index.

Summary: Thoroughly rewritten and updated, this work contains information for doctors treating patients with both benign and malignant breast disorders. The guide includes all changes in practice during the 1990s, and each chapter is written by a doctor actively involved in the field.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Symptoms, assessment and guidelines for referral--2. Congenital problems and aberrations of normal breast development and involution--3. Breast pain--4. Breast infection--5. Breast cancer - epidemiology, risk factors, and genetics--6. Screening for breast cancer--7. Breast cancer--8. Management of regional nodes in breast cancer--9. Breast cancer: treatment of elderly patients and uncommon conditions--10. Role of systemic treatment for primary operable breast cancer--11. Locally advanced breast cancer--12. Metastic breast cancer--13. Prognostic factors--14. Clinical trials of management of breast cancer--15. Psychological aspects--16. Carcinoma in situ and patients at high risk of breast cancer--17. Breast reconstruction.

This rewritten, updated edition of a guide for doctors treating patients with benign and malignant breast disorders, includes all changes in practice during the 1990s. Each chapter is written by a doctor actively involved in the field.