Oncohema Key

9 Screening of High-Risk Patients James P. Borgstede, Brian M. Bagrosky KEY POINTS • Although most women who develop breast cancer have no elevated risk factors, a small group of…

20 Surveillance and Detection of Recurrence of Breast Cancer Peter Kabos, Virginia F. Borges KEY POINTS • Surveillance of breast cancer survivors forms an integral part of their care, and…

14 Oncoplastic Surgical Techniques for the Partial Mastectomy Chin-Yau Chen, Kristine E. Calhoun, Benjamin O. Anderson KEY POINTS • Oncoplastic surgery is a technique that achieves wide surgical margins while…

19 Adjuvant Systemic Therapy Anthony D. Elias, Daniel Bowles, Peter Kabos KEY POINTS • The most common subtypes of breast cancer are the estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-amplified, and the triple-negative…

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…

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…

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…

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%…

5 Genetics Jennifer E. Axilbund, Amy L. Gross, Kala Visvanathan KEY POINTS • Most hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes are inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. • In approximately 50% of…