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Breast Cancer New Horizons in Research and Treatment

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ISBN-10: 034074216X

ISBN-13: 9780340742167

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jeffrey S. Tobias, Joan Houghton, I. Craig Henderson

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This comprehensive text on breast cancer, currently the major and most frequently fatal type of cancer in women of the western world, concentrates on new research in both the laboratory and the clinical setting. The text includes a substantial section on the possible hazards, shortcomings and benefits of breast cancer screening which remains an area of considerable controversy, and describes in detail current a future treatments with an emphasis on the latest research findings. The authors represent an international group of highly respected authorities, with editorship shared by a UK clinician, a UK expert in clinical trails and a US clinician/researcher.
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Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Hodder Education Group
Publication date: 1/25/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 10.50" wide x 7.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.2

From the laboratory to clinic: breast cancer at the turn of the century
Trends in mortality from breast cancer
Changing philosophical perspectives in breast cancer
Biochemical and biological markers of breast cancer progression
Prognostic and predictive factors in invasice breast cancer
How do anti-estrogens work?
Novel chemotherapy agents for treatment of breast cancer
Early detection and prevention
Identifying and counseling women at high risk of developing breast cancer
Early detection and prevention: benefits, costs and limitations of screening
Hazards, disadvantages and drawbacks of breast cancer screening
The psychological costs of breast screening
Methodological issues in the design of chemoprevention trials
Chemoprevention with tamoxifen: known benefits and toxicity
Could cytotoxic chemotherapy have a future in the chemoprevention of breast cancer
Current and future management
To dissect or not: what is the role of auxiliary surgery in management and research?
Neoadjuvant systemic primary therapy- is surgery the true adjuvant?
Adjuvant radiotherapy in the management of elderly breast cancer
Moving the goalposts-a review of clinical trial strategies in early breast cancer
Chemotherapy for postmenopausal patients with primary breast cancer
New concepts in the treatment of breast cancer using high-dose chemotherapy
Adjuvant systemic chemotherapy: where do we go from here?
Hormonal therapy for advanced breast cancer
Improving the quality of care for breast cancer patients
Variations in practice and healthcare delivery of surgical management of breast cancer
Linking research to the management of breast cancer
What can patients contribute to the design of clinical trials?
Variations in the management of breast cancer: Do the matter and what can be done?
Measuring quality of life in patients treated for breast cancer
Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer risk
Breast cancer and pregnancy
An integrated policy for breast cancer management and research