Mgt Patients High Risk Breast

Herausgeber: Vogel, Victor G

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first to identify women who are at increased risk for developing breast cancer as a large and increasingly important population in need of special health-care attention. By examining the factors that contribute to their risk and using quantitative risk models, Management of patients at High Risk offers practical, authoritative guidance in the management of these patients, both healthy and ill. The book covers the spectrum of issues clinicians face in providing expert counsel and effective, human care-including the many diagnostic and therapeutic options available. Chapters summarize the most recent thinking on generics, epidemiology, and the role of mammography, pharmacologic and surgical prevention and treatment. The authors review both the benefits and disadvantages of various management options and discusses important considerations such as costs, psychological management, and the associated legal and ethical issues. A practical model for organizing a risk assessment clinic is also presented.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 809g
• ISBN-13: 9780632043231
• ISBN-10: 0632043237
• Artikelnr.: 21114826

Autorenporträt

Victor G. Vogel, MD is Director of the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Epidemiology of Breast Cancer.
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2. Genetics of Breast Cancer.
3. Clinical Characteristics of Genetically Determined Breast Cancer.
4. Quantitative Breast Cancer Risk Assessment.
5. Clinical Characteristics of Genetically Determined Ovarian Cancer.
6. Genetic Screening for Ovarian Cancer Risk Assessment.
7. Contemporary Breast Imaging in the High Risk Assessment.
8. Imaging Guided Percutaneous Biopsies.
9. New Horizons in Breast Imaging.
10. Development of a Risk Assessment Clinic.
11. Prophylactic Mastectomy.
12. Chemoprevention: Reducing Breast Cancer Risk.
13. Psychological Management of Women at RIsk for Breast Cancer.
14. Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Assessment, Management and Testing.
15. Cost Effectiveness of the Identification of Women at High Risk for the
Development of Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer.
16. Population-Based Prevention Strategies.
Index