Product Description
Handbook for the management of breast cancer in a general hospital
Authors: J Edge, I Buccimazza
Format: Physical Hardcopy
This handbook provides a useful guide for the day-to-day management of people with breast cancer. It covers the journey from diagnosis to post-treatment comprehensive care. It explains when and why different treatment modalities are used, what the complications of both the disease and treatments are and how to manage them.
Although this book has been written for students and health personnel working in a general hospital, it will be useful for those in specialist breast units as well.
Contents:
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Chapter 1 The normal breast
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Chapter 2 Clinical evaluation of the breast
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Chapter 3 Special investigations of the breast
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Chapter 4 Developing algorithms and establishing referral pathways in breast disease: a South African perspective
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Chapter 5 Principles of treating breast cancer: a multidisciplinary approach
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Chapter 6 Surgery for breast cancer
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Chapter 7 Systemic therapy
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Chapter 8 Radiotherapy
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Chapter 9 Management of metastatic breast cancer
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Chapter 10 Breast cancer: posttreatment follow-up
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Chapter 11 Familial breast cancer
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Chapter 12 Ductal carcinoma in situ
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Chapter 13 Communication skills in oncology palliative care
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Chapter 14 Palliative care in end-stage breast cancer
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Chapter 15 Guidelines for managing psychosocial distress
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Chapter 16 Comprehensive care
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Chapter 17 Lymphoedema
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Chapter 18 Miscellaneous matters
About the Author
Dr Jenny Edge is a surgeon and head of Breast and Endocrine Surgery at the University of Stellenbosch.
Dr Ines Buccimazza is head of the Breast Unit, member of the Multidisciplinary Breast Team and a senior specialist in the Department of Surgery at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.
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