ABC of Breast Diseases

J Michael Dixon, Consultant Surgeon and Professor of Surgery, Edinburgh Breast Unit, and Clinical Director, Breakthrough Research Unit, Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Contributors

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

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