Genetic Syndromes Associated With Increased Risk of Breast Carcinoma       9 Jessica Scott and Carolyn Rogers HEREDITARY BREAST CANCER—GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS •  The majority of breast cancers, an estimated 90%, are sporadic…

  Integrative Approaches to Symptom Management in Breast Cancer Patients 10 Ting Bao INTRODUCTION An increasing number of breast cancer patients are using integrative medicine approaches to manage symptoms associated…

  Breast Cancer Survivorship                      11 Paula Rosenblatt, Ikumi Suzuki, Angela DeRidder, and Nilam Patel The National Cancer Institute (NCI) defines a cancer survivor as the individual from the “time of…

  Management of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ        4 Susan B. Kesmodel, Natalie O’Neill, Steven J. Feigenberg, Alex Engelman, Katherine H. R. Tkaczuk, Susan Shyu, and Olga Ioffe INTRODUCTION Ductal carcinoma…

  Breast Imaging: Breast Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, Staging, and Surveillance 1 Cristina Campassi, Lyn Ho, Jessica Galandak, Sergio Dromi, Divya Awal, Daniel Maver, Jasleen Chopra, and Sonya Y. Khan INTRODUCTION…

  Management of High-Risk Breast Disease        2 Arielle Cimeno, Stephanie Richards, Susan B. Kesmodel, Olga Ioffe, Katherine H. R. Tkaczuk, and Emily Bellavance INTRODUCTION General Characteristics High-risk breast lesions represent…

  Breast Cancer Reconstruction                     8 Rachel Bluebond-Langner, Erin M. Rada, and Sheri Slezak INTRODUCTION Goals of Reconstruction Breast reconstruction is usually not a single operation but rather a process that…

  Phyllodes Tumor                                  3 Jolinta Lin, Elizabeth Nichols, Susan B. Kesmodel, Dina Ioffe, Olga Ioffe, and Katherine H. R. Tkaczuk EPIDEMIOLOGY Phyllodes tumors (PTs) are uncommon, biphasic, fibroepithelial neoplasms of…

  Breast Cancer in Pregnancy                           7 Ewa Mrozek, Susan B. Kesmodel, and Katherine H. R. Tkaczuk INTRODUCTION The incidence of pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABCa) has been increasing during the last…