ABC of Breast Diseases

ABC of Breast Diseases, Fourth edition About the ABC of Breast Diseases

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

Breast diseases are common and often encountered by health professionals in primary care. While the incidence of breast cancer is increasing, earlier detection and improved treatments are helping to reduce breast cancer mortality.

The ABC of Breast Diseases provides comprehensive guidance to the assessment of symptoms, how to manage all common breast conditions and guidelines on referral. It covers congenital problems, breast infection and mastalgia, before addressing the epidemiology, prevention, screening and diagnosis of breast cancer. It outlines the treatment and management options for breast cancer within different groups and includes new chapters on the genetics, prevention, management of high-risk women and the psychological aspects of breast diseases.

Edited and written by internationally renowned experts in the eld and highly illustrated in full colour, this fourth edition remains a practical guide for general practitioners, family physicians, practice nurses and breast care nurses as well as surgeons and oncologists, both in training and recently quali ed, and medical students.

About the ABC series

The new ABC series has been thoroughly updated, offering a fresh look, layout and features throughout, helping you to access information and deliver the best patient care. The newly designed books remain an essential reference tool for GPs, GP registrars, junior doctors and those in primary care, designed to address the concerns of general practitioners and provide effective study aids for doctors in training.

Now offering over 70 titles, this extensive series provides you with a quick and dependable reference on a range of topics in all the major specialities. Each book in the new series now offers links to further information and articles, and a new dedicated website provides you with even more support.

The ABC series is the essential and dependable source of up-to-date information for all practitioners and students in general practice.

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Contributors vii Preface ix 1 Symptoms Assessment and Guidelines for Referral 1 J Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas 2 Congenital Problems and Aberrations of Normal Development and Involution 12 J Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas 3 Mastalgia 25 Julie Iddon and J Michael Dixon 4 Breast Infection 31 J Michael Dixon 5 Breast Cancer: Epidemiology Risk Factors and Genetics 41 Ivana Sestak Jack Cuzick and Gareth Evans 6 Prevention of Breast Cancer 47 Ivana Sestak Jack Cuzick Gareth Evans and Ava Kwong 7 Screening for Breast Cancer 51 Robin Wilson Douglas Macmillan and Julietta Patnick 8 Breast Cancer 59 J Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas 9 Management of Regional Nodes in Breast Cancer 68 Nigel Bundred J Michael Dixon and Jeremy Thomas 10 Breast Cancer: Treatment of Elderly Patients and Uncommon Conditions 77 J Michael Dixon and Richard Sainsbury 11 Role of Systemic Treatment of Primary Operable Breast Cancer 86 AA Kotsori and Ian Smith 12 Locally Advanced Breast Cancer 102 J Michael Dixon and Robert Leonard 13 Metastatic Breast Cancer 109 Robert Leonard and J Michael Dixon 14 Prognostic Factors 119 Alastair Thompson and Sarah Pinder 15 Psychological Impact of Breast Cancer 125 Belinda Hacking 16 Carcinoma in situ 130 Nigel Bundred and J Michael Dixon 17 Breast Reconstruction 138 J Michael Dixon Cameron Raine and Eva M Weiler-Mithoff Index 151
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J Michael Dixon, Consultant Surgeon and Professor of Surgery, Edinburgh Breast Unit, and Clinical Director, Breakthrough Research Unit, Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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