Cost-Effective Staging of Breast Cancer
18 Cost-Effective Staging of Breast Cancer Virginia F. Borges, Lara Hardesty KEY POINTS • A cost-effective analysis provides a calculation of the cost-per-unit benefit that an intervention incurs. It does…
Surgical Therapy of Early Breast Cancer
12 Surgical Therapy of Early Breast Cancer Michael Ford, Christina A. Finlayson KEY POINTS • Surgical therapy of early breast cancer is a required component of multidisciplinary care. • The…
Strategies for Risk Reduction
6 Strategies for Risk Reduction Anna Voltura, Lisa Jacobs KEY POINTS • Chemoprevention is the use of chemotherapeutics to stabilize, suppress, or reverse the mechanisms whereby a precancerous lesion becomes…
Nutrition and Lifestyle
7 Nutrition and Lifestyle Lisa Ware Corbin KEY POINTS • Known breast cancer risk factors (e.g., age at menarche, parity, and heredity) are thought to explain only 25% to 47%…
Conclusion
25 Conclusion Lisa Jacobs, Christina A. Finlayson We all know the statistics on the impact that breast cancer has on our population. Today, 1 in 8 women will experience breast…
