Synopses & Reviews
Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Early Detection provides an in-depth overview of the factors of breast cancer risk and what health care providers and individuals can do to impact the risk of breast cancer in their patient or themselves. Many books address breast cancer in general or focus on treatment; few focus on prevention and early detection, including current practices and new strategies in: epidemiology, primary prevention, chemoprevention, surgical prevention, breast specific (physical examination, imaging, intraductal) and systemic screening and early detection. Written by experts in their fields, this book is a resource to researchers, clinicians and the broad group of health care providers. It is a source of accurate information for individuals to use to reduce risk of new or recurrent breast cancer and to apply best practices for early detection.
Synopsis
The purpose of Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Early Detection is to provide a single source for primary care physicians, nurses and the lay community to obtain the current approach to breast cancer prevention and early detection. The chapters will be written by experts in the field and will address current science, future directions, and questions that individuals might have to regarding their options to minimize their breast cancer risk, and to find disease that is present as soon as possible.
Table of Contents
Part I: PREVENTION 1. Risk Factors 2. Lifestyle Factors and Risk of Breast Cancer: A Review of Randomized Trial Findings 3. Chemoprevention 4. Surgical Management of Inherited Susceptibility to Breast Cancer Part II: EARLY DETECTION 5. Clinical Breast Evaluation and Breast Self-Examination 6. Mammography 7. Current Status and Future Prospects of Positron Emission Tomography in Breast Carcinoma 8. Breast MRI 9. Genetic and Molecular Approaches to Imaging Breast Cancer 10. Intraductal Approaches: Nipple Aspirate Fluid to Assist In Breast Cancer Detection 11. Intraductal Approaches: Mammary Ductoscopy and Ductal Lavage to Assist in the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer 12. Blood Markers 13. Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer