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%…
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…
Fig. 9.1 Bi-valved block made of tissue-equivalent material with a central chamber to encase the penis during external beam radiotherapy The clinical target volume (CTV) is the visible/palpable disease with…
Fig. 6.1 The femoral triangle. (a) Anatomy of femoral triangle. (b) Cross-sectional anatomy of right femoral triangle Video Endoscopic Inguinal Lymphadenectomy Patient Preparation and Position The risks and benefits of…
