Case Studies in Breast Cancer

Featuring 37 detailed case studies, with comprehensive explanatory text and full colour illustrations, this book provides any healthcare professional involved in breast cancer with clear guidelines and helpful pointers on the aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of this important and widespread condition. All cases are based on real case encountered by the author, and provide the reader with realistic scenarios against which to judge their own their own treatment decisions and upon which to base teaching sessions.

1. Breast conservation or mastectomy?; 2. The influence of coexisting disease; 3. The difficult diagnosis; 4. Sequential bilateral breast carcinoma; 5. Genetic disease; 6. Cancer family syndrome; 7. HRT and other hormonal issues; 8. Adoption after breast cancer; 9. Breast cancer in pregnancy; 10. The doctor patient; 11. The high risk patient; 12. The unfit patient; 13. Pregnancy after cancer; 14. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; 15. Acute illness; 16. Metastatic disease-or not?; 17. The internet patient; 18. Breast cancer and pregnancy; 19. Resistant inflammatory breast carcinoma; 20. Axillary lymphadenopathy; 21. The unusual tumour; 22. The professional sportswoman; 23. Late stage disease in pregnancy; 24. Hormone sensitive disease; 25. Receptor negative disease?; 26. Solitary bone metastases; 27. The orthopaedic challenge; 28. Aggressive metastatic disease; 29. Responsive metastatic disease; 30. Unusual sites of metastatic disease (1); 31. Unusual sites of metastatic disease (2); 32. The neglected tumour and unconventional management; 33. Extensive soft tissue disease; 34. Male breast cancer; 35. Spinal cord compression; 36. Recurrent spinal cord compression; 37. Brachial plexopathy (1); 38. Brachial plexopathy (2); 39. Brain metastases; Appendices; Index.