ABC of Breast Diseases

The ABC of Breast Diseases provides comprehensive guidance to the assessment of symptoms, and how to manage all common breast conditions and provides guidelines on referral. It covers congenital problems, breast infection and mastalgia, before addressing the epidemiology, prevention, screening and diagnosis of breast cancer. It outlines the treatment and management options for breast cancer within different groups and includes new chapters on the genetics, prevention, management of high risk women and the psychological aspects of breast diseases. Edited and written by internationally renowned experts in the field and highly illustrated in full colour, this fourth edition remains a practical guide for general practitioners, family physicians, practice nurses and breast care nurses as well as for surgeons and oncologists both in training and recently qualified as well as medical students. J Michael Dixon, Consultant Surgeon and Professor of Surgery, Edinburgh Breast Unit, and Clinical Director, Breakthrough Research Unit, Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK CONTENTS 1 Symptoms, assessment, and guidelines for referral Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas 2 Congenital problems and aberrations of normal development and involution Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas 3 Mastalgia Michael Dixon and Julie Iddon 4 Breast infection Michael Dixon 5 Breast cancer – epidemiology, risk factors and genetics Jack Cuzick, Gareth Evans and Michael Dixon 6 Prevention of Breast Cancer Ivana Sestak, Jack Cuzick, Gareth Evans, Ava Kwong 7 Screening for breast cancer A R M Wilson 8 Breast cancer Michael Dixon 9 Management of regional nodes in breast cancer Nigel Bundred and Michael Dixon 10 Breast cancer: treatment of elderly patients and uncommon conditions Michael Dixon 11 Role of systemic treatment of primary operable breast cancer Ian Smith 12 Locally advanced breast cancer Robert Leonard and Michael Dixon 13 Metastatic breast cancer Robert Leonard and Michael Dixon 14 Prognostic factors Alastair M Thompson and Sarah Pinder 15 Psychological aspects Belinda Hacking 16 Carcinoma in situ and patients at high risk of breast cancer Nigel Bundred 17 Breast Reconstruction Cameron Raine and EM Weiler-Mithoff Index