Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Early Detection

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sauter, Edward R. (Editor), Daly, Mary B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Radiology, Medical.; Cancer > Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Oncology.; Cancer Research.; Imaging / Radiology.; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87583-5

Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Early Detection provides an in-depth overview of the factors of breast cancer risk and what health care providers and individuals can do to impact the risk of breast cancer in their patient or themselves. Many books address breast cancer in general or focus on treatm...

Table of Contents:

• Prevention
• Risk Factors
• Lifestyle Factors and Risk of Breast Cancer: A Review of Randomized Trial Findings
• Chemoprevention
• Surgical Management of Inherited Susceptibility to Breast Cance
• Early Detection
• Clinical Breast Evaluation and Breast Self-Examination
• Mammography
• Current Status and Future Prospects of Positron Emission Tomography in Breast Carcinoma
• Breast MRI
• Genetic and Molecular Approaches to Imaging Breast Cancer
• Intraductal Approaches: Nipple Aspirate Fluid to Assist In Breast Cancer Detection
• Intraductal Approaches: Mammary Ductoscopy and Ductal Lavage to Assist in the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
• Blood Markers
• Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer .