by Stephen Johnston
Handbook of Metastatic Breast Cancer covers treatment for both the cancer and the complications that can arise from treatment itself.
Handbook of Metastatic Breast Cancer features:
- Written by a team of well-respected authors from the UK's leading cancer centres, this important handbook covers
- systemic treatment for breast cancer, including endocrine therapy, chemotherapy, targeted biologics and bisphosphonates
- diagnostic imaging and tumour assessment, including Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
- local management options for neurological, pulmonary, hepatic and orthopaedic complications
palliative care
Contents
Systemic Treatments
- Endocrine Therapy for Advanced Disease
- Chemotherapy and Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Trastuzumab and other Novel Therapies in Breast Cancer
- Bisphosphonates and their Role in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Imaging
- Imaging in the Management of Metastatic Breast Cancer
- PET/CT in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Local Treatment Options
- Palliative Radiotherapy in the Management of Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Management of Neurological Complications in Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Pulmonary Complications
- Orthopaedic Complications
- Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatic Mestastases
Palliative Care
Index
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