Breast Cancer: Multidisciplinary Pathways for Cancer Care in the Community: Multidisciplinary Pathwa

Dean, Rosamund

Developing or existing breast cancer centres strive to provide the highest quality care possible within their current financial and personnel resources. Although the basics in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer are well known, providing, monitoring, and assessing the care offered can be challenging for most sites. <p/>Based on the work of the International Congress of Breast Disease Centres, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how to start or improve a breast unit wherever you live. Written by a multidisciplinary team of over 100 experts from 25 countries, it provides a practical guide for how to optimally organise high quality integrated breast cancer care, whilst taking into account the local economics and resources available to different countries. <p/>Each component of the care pathway, including imaging, surgery, systemic treatment, nursing, and genetic assessment, is discussed from a theoretical and practical aspect. The authors define targets to strive for, methods to assess care, and key recommendations for how to improve within existing limitations. Finally, the book looks beyond the breast care unit to consider accreditation and certification, emerging technologies, media, and the role of governments. <p/>This guide will be valuable for anyone working in the field of integrated breast cancer care, including established breast care experts, those new to the field, and policy makers interested in the social, financial, and political aspects of improving breast care quality.

Bland, Kirby I

In this issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, guest editors Patrice Weiss and Jessica F. Partin bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Management of Benign and Malignant Breast Disease.<ul> <li> <p>Provides in-depth reviews on the latest in Management of Benign and Malignant Breast Disease. </p></li> <li> <p>Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews. </p></li></ul>

<p>Recent developments with novel systemic drugs, palliative surgical techniques, and diagnostic imaging have given hope for the treatment of patients whose breast cancer has spread beyond its primary tumor. Written by a team from leading cancer centers in Europe, including the UK's Royal Marsden Hospital, this book<b> </b>provides advanced scientific information and guidance on clinical problems associated with metastatic breast cancer. It discusses endocrine therapy, chemotherapy, targeted biologics, and bisphosphonates. It covers diagnostic imaging and tumor assessment; reviews management options for neurological, pulmonary, hepatic and orthopedic complications; and discusses palliative care.</p>

This title reviews the key prognostic factors in breast cancer, discussing the methodologies involved in measuring and reporting. It also examines the roles of major predictive markers such as the steroid receptors, p53 and HER-2. Given the wealth of information in the medical literature on breast cancer, this volume is useful in that it focuses strictly on these factors. That focus makes this text extremely useful for oncologists and researchers who want to learn more about best practices in prognoses.