Author: C. Scott Hultman
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: breast, vol, reconstruction, disease
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2003-08
List price: $245.00
ISBN-10: 1586033654
ISBN-13: 9781586033651
Women with breast cancer have multiple options regarding the timing and method of breast reconstruction. This work provides a comprehensive overview of breast reconstruction for all members of the healthcare team who assess and treat women with breast cancer.
Author: Etta D. Pisano
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: breast, disease, imaging
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2001-09
List price: $116.00
ISBN-10: 1586031686
ISBN-13: 9781586031688
The title of this work, "Breast Imaging", reflects the intellectual expansion of the field that previously was limited to standard mammography. NMR, Sestimibi scanning, EPR, and optical imaging are all adding to the richness of approaches directed at the early detection of breast cancer. These approaches put us in the enviable position of asking which technologies are the most specific (not just the most sensitive), and which are the most cost effective (and not simply most useful). This book, edited by Dr Etta Pisano, discusses the key questions and discoveries in breast imaging through a ser
Author: W. G. Cance
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: breast, disease, surgery
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2001-05
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 1586031597
ISBN-13: 9781586031596
This book will provide a comprehensive review of the surgical aspects of breast disease from outstanding leaders in the fields. Each chapter will offer a state-of-the-art discussion with the authors’ assessments of future direction in the field. Topics will range from the surgical management of high risk patients, as well as patients with DCIS and invasive cancer. Chapters will be devoted to the status of sentinel lymphadenectomy as well as management of breast cancer in the elderly and management of locally advanced breast cancer. Other topics will include breast surgica
Author: R.E. Mansel
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: benign, breast, international, sympos, proceedings, disease, developments, recent, study
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 1991-12-15
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1850703868
ISBN-13: 9781850703860
Author: Judy C. Kneece
Publisher: Educare Publishing (SC)
Keywords: breast, cancer, emotions, recovery, treatments, understanding, treatment, handbook, disease
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1886665222
ISBN-13: 9781886665224
Your Breast Cancer Treatment Handbook has been called the most effective and empowering breast cancer book both by patients and healthcare professionals. This valuable book is designed for the newly diagnosed breast cancer patient. It provides the patient with current, easy-to-understand explanations of procedures and treatments; decision making guidelines; and inspirational encouragment as the patient progresses through the breast cancer experience. No treatment advise is given, allowing the treatment team and the patient to work as partners for the final treatment decisions. Survivors’
Authors:S.Z. Haslam, S.Z. Haslam, J.R. Osuch,
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: breast, disease, vol, women, post, cancer, hormones, menopausal
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $191.00
ISBN-10: 158603653X
ISBN-13: 9781586036539
In 2006, invasive breast cancer is estimated to be diagnosed in 212,920 women and 1,720 men in the US, thus affecting women at a rate almost 200 times that of men. The description of breast tumors as a primary phenomenon of the female gender is documented in medical writings dating as far back as those contained in the ancient Egyptian papyrus acquired by Edwin Smith, which document cases of breast tumors as early as 1600 B.C. It would take nearly 2,000 years to recognize that the predominance of breast disease in women had a relationship to the chemical differences that exist between women an
Author: David Derry
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: breast, cancer, survive, iodine, prevent
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2002
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 1552128849
ISBN-13: 9781552128848
This book is about cause, prevention and treatment of breast cancer. Breast cancer has two phases. The first one, from abnormal cells up to carcinoma in situ reverses with iodine. The second phase, invasion, is controlled by connective tissue thyroid hormone.
