This comprehensive textbook incoporates all aspects of breast disease, including basic science, benign breast diseases, malignant neoplasms, diagnostics, multidisciplinary therapeutic options, and molecular biology research. It focuses on information useful for trainees, medical students, and practicing breast surgeons and oncologists. The highlight of the book is to present the controversies and arrive at a consensus in an evidence-based narrative. It aims to be useful not only for daily practice but also to establish a firm knowledge platform for clinicians and research scientists by outlining the guidelines for the treatment plan.
Key Features
• Has a global perspective and encourages implementation of the guidelines for management in daily practice
• Enriched with high-quality illustrations and flowcharts for easy understanding of trainees, fellows, and breast surgeons
• Covers the latest innovations and research in breast disease management
Table of Contents:
Core area I Epidemiology
1. Epidemiology of Breast Cancer.
Core area II Radiology
2.Breast imaging for the Surgeon.
Core area III Physiology and Benign Conditions
3. Developmental anomalies of Breast. 4. Pathophysiology and Hormonal factors involved during pregnancy and lactation and its effects on lactogenesis. 5. Benign breast disease.
Core area IV Etiology, Molecular basis, and screening
6. Etiopathogenesis, Risk Factors and Genomics in Breast Cancer. 7. Management of the high-risk Patient. 8. Breast Cancer Screening: A Need for Comparative Effectiveness Research. 9. Management of high-risk lesions and in situ cancers. 10. Staging of Breast Cancer.
Core area V Management of breast cancer
11. The Management of Impalpable Breast Lesions.12. Paget’s disease of Breast. 13. Management of Early breast cancer. 14. Controversies and consensus in management of axilla. 15. Locally advanced breast cancer. 16. Special considerations in breast cancer management: Breast Cancer and fertility, Pregnancy associated breast cancer. 17. Male breast cancer. 18. Prognostication in breast cancer. 19. Management of metastatic breast cancer.
Core area VI Operative surgery in breast cancer
20. Breast Conservation Therapy. 21. Principals in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery. 22. Principles of Breast Reconstruction. 23. Surgical Management of Breast Cancer Related Lymphoedema.
Core area VII Adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy
24. Radiation oncology: practice guidelines. 25. Chemotherapeutic interventions. 26. Molecular targets and immunotherapy.
Core area VIII Miscellaneous
27. Special issues in breast tumours: Phylloides, Sarcoma. 28. Breast cancer in developing countries: issues and solutions. 29. Breast cancer Survivorship. 30. Recent Trials in Surgical Management of Breast cancer.
About the Author :
Diptendra K. Sarkar is a Professor of Surgery and chief of the Breast Surgery and Research Unit at the Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India. He was awarded the prestigious GB Ong award by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for securing the highest position in FRCS exam in 2000. He is currently the President of the Association of Breast Surgeons of India and the Honorary Secretary of Asian Society of Mastology .Prof. Sarkar is the Associate Editor of Indian Journal of Surgery and Journal of Indian Medical Association. He is an international Tutor-examiner with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Prof Sarkar was awarded prestigious Hauck Visiting Professorship in May 2019 by Mayo Clinic , Rochester, USA. He is a member of the working group committee on Breast Cancer screening in India and has been the international resource person for early diagnosis in breast cancer for Bangladesh. He is presently member of the Governing Council of Association of Surgeons of India. His areas of interest include research in prognostic markers and locally advanced breast cancer. He has written more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to 3 book chapters.
