Optimizing Breast Cancer Management

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gradishar, William J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cancer Treatment and Research, 173
• Subjects: Oncology .; Gynecology .; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Gynecology.

This book presents expert opinions on a variety of key topics related to the management of breast cancer, with a focus on the implications of recent advances and research findings for clinical practice. It also explores the controversy regarding mammography screening and reviews the contribution of...

Table of Contents:

• Strategies to maintain fertility in young breast cancer patients
• Sexual dysfuncton in breast cancer survivors
• The breast cancer screening conundrum
• New Imaging modalities in breast cancer
• Is DCIS over treated
• "Personalizing" Breast Radiation
• Management of the axilla in early stage breast cancer
• Management of the breast in denovo MBC
• Identification of genetic lesions in patients with strong family history and no BRCA Mutation
• Managing "testing expectations" in breast cancer survivors
• The role of bone strengthening agents in early and advanced disease
• Overcoming endocrine resistance
• Optimal Adjuvant endocrine therapy
• Choosing wisely in HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer
• Should early stage, triple negative breast cancer be treated with preoperative systemic therapy?