Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer: Chemotherapy Sing-Huang Tan Antonio C. Wolff INTRODUCTION In 2013, the United States had an estimated 232,340 new cases of breast cancer and 39,620 breast cancer-related…
Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer: Endocrine Stephen R.D. Johnston Gaia Schiavon INTRODUCTION The optimal management of patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) remains a challenge. Systemic drug treatments such as…
Management of Local Regional Recurrences after Primary Breast Cancer Treatment Meena S. Moran Anees B. Chagpar Erica L. Mayer INTRODUCTION Contemporary treatments for early-stage breast cancer have minimized the risk…
Surgery for the Primary in Patients with Distant Metastases Tari A. King The traditional dogma that surgery is reserved for the palliation of symptoms in stage IV breast cancer is…
Surveillance of Patients following Primary Therapy Robert W. Carlson The success of therapy for breast cancer results in an increasing number of breast cancer survivors being monitored for the development…
Occult Primary Cancer with Axillary Metastases Alain Fourquet Youlia M. Kirova Breast cancer can sometimes present as an isolated axillary adenopathy without any detectable breast tumor by palpation or radiologic…
Breast Cancer during Pregnancy and Subsequent Pregnancy in Breast Cancer Survivors Jennifer K. Litton Richard L. Theriault INTRODUCTION Pregnancy and fertility issues have become a significant concern for younger breast…
Nonepithelial Malignancies of the Breast Francisco J. Esteva Carolina Gutiérrez Nonepithelial malignancies of the breast account for less than 1% of breast tumors. The most common primary nonepithelial breast cancers…
Paget’s Disease Nora M. Hansen Paget’s disease, a rare presentation of breast cancer accounts for 1% to 3% of all breast cancers (1, 2). The majority of cases are associated…
Phyllodes Tumors Kristine E. Calhoun Kimberly H. Allison Janice N. Kim Habib Rahbar Benjamin O. Anderson PHYLLODES NOMENCLATURE Phyllodes tumors are fibroepithelial breast tumors capable of a diverse range of…
