Breast Cancer A Lobar Disease /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tot, Tibor (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Biomedicine general.

The theory of the sick lobe states that breast carcinoma is a lobar disease developing most often within a single lobe, meaning that, at an early stage, breast carcinoma occupies a limited, anatomically well-defined portion of the breast. This theory unites observed patterns from the genetic, develo...

Table of Contents:

• The theory of the sick lobe
• Lobar anatomy of human breast and its importance for breast cancer
• Breast cancer may originate in utero: The importance of the intrauterine environment for breast cancer development
• Genetic alterations in normal and malignant breast tissue
• The role of ductal lavage: a cautionary
• The distribution of the earliest forms of breast carcinoma
• The implications of the imaging manifestations of multifocal and diffuse breast cancers
• Lobar ultrasound of the breast
• The lobar distribution of the lesions in breast carcinoma: Ductoscopy and surgery
• Stop Breast Cancer Now! Imagining imaging pathways towards search, destroy, cure and watchful waiting of premetastasis breast cancer
• Epilogue: The diseased breast lobe in the context of x-chromosome inactivation and differentiation waves.