High-Risk Breast Cancer: Diagnosis - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 364273720X ISBN 13 : 9783642737206

Editeur : Springer, 2011

Synopsis

The most meaningful reward to clinicians and researchers is the absence of recurrent malignancy in their patients. While in some patients the disease will be cured by resection alone, in other similarly staged cases the disease will recur despite adequate loco regional and systemic therapies. Hence, risk assessment is a complex issue with many related or unrelated prognostic factors determining outcome. The purpose of this volume is to review some of the most relevant prognostic factors of newly diagnosed breast cancer, focusing on fea- tures determining the magnitude of risk. The ultimate value of establishing the significance of each prognostic factor in a given patient will be the resulting ability to plan individu- alized therapies for patients at different risk of recurrence at the time of diagnosis. To secure the maximum benefit for high-risk patients, while avoiding undue toxicity in those with low-risk lesions, a well-integrated analysis of all known prognostic factors will be essential in the early postdiagnos- tic period. In addition to well-established staging criteria such as axillary nodes, tumor size, receptors, scanning and radiographic examinations, the more sophisticated labora- tory techniques, as discussed by several authors herein, will playa crucial role in risk assessment. Most of them, - ploidy determination, oncogenes, tumor markers, monoclonal anti- bodies, growth factors, etc. -are presently available in only a minority of treatment centers.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This overview of diagnostic aspects of breast cancer focuses on high-risk features and risk determinants of newly disease. It offers a unique update enabling the quantification of the risk at diagnosis. This book differs from others on breast cancer by it

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 364273720X
• ISBN 13: 9783642737206
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Ragaz Joseph, Ariel Irving M.
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