Circulating Tumor Cells, Disease Progression, And Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer

The complete guide to what to expect when you're expecting the worst. Reconstruction is a pragmatic but positive handbook for anyone navigating a diagnosis of primary breast cancer. It contains clear, useful advice on what to do and what to expect at all stages of treatment, from questions to ask your doctors and practical ways to reduce your risk of recurrence, right down to what to pack in your hospital bag. Written by journalist and breast cancer patient, Rosamund Dean, this reassuring guide combines the most up-to-date therapeutic information from a variety of medical experts with evidence-based lifestyle advice, and will help every patient to live well during treatment and beyond.

This volume summarizes the treatment options from the onset of breast carcinogenesis to early-local advanced and metastatic breast cancer. This book includes a comparison between different chemotherapy agents and targeted therapies with published phase II-III studies. Photodynamic treatments have been included in this book.

by Angela L. Williams (Author, Editor)
Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in women, and an estimated one in eight U.S. women (about 12%) will eventually develop an invasive form of this disease

A comprehensive, down-to-earth guide for anyone diagnosed with breast cancer.

Breast Cancer: A New Era in Management provides a compendium of succinct analysis of the many facets involved in the present day management of the breast cancer patient. The text provides the clinician or student with basic foundational knowledge in the rapidly expanding areas of expertise that are required for both the diagnosis and treatment of the breast cancer patient.