Main description:

Designed in a small-format for practical reading and point-of-care setting use, this work presents the most up-to-date concepts on breast diseases. The main objective of this book is to propagate current knowledge of the most frequent breast diseases, being a quick reference, evidence-based manual covering the major clinical scenarios in mastology. The essence of the work can be summarized in the following sentence: "access to maximum content in the least amount of time."

The book contains data that will allow readers to understand and treat patients with different complaints and diseases. Each chapter presents a flow chart and a summary of the five major publications on the subject. This is unique in comparison with other books in this medical specialty.

Developed by a team of international expert specialists who deal with breast pathologies on a daily basis, the book also includes additional contributions from experienced, renowned professionals in interdisciplinary specialties related to the main area.

This book will be of interest to physicians who deal with breast diseases and wish to improve their knowledge through exposure to state-of-the-art data and best practices advice. It is also directed to medical students and residents in training within mastology.
(This title was originally published in Portuguese by the Brazilian publisher Atheneu in 2011 and has sold very well and gone into a third edition, published in 2017. The Editors have all English language rights, detailed in the attached contract, although it is in Portuguese).

Contents:

1. Classification BI-RADS (R)

2. Mammography

3. Ultrasound

4. Magnetic Resonance Scanning

5. Nuclear Medicine: PET Scan, Breast Scintigraphy and MBI

6. Other Imaging Methods

7. Mammographic Screening

8. Special Screening Situations

9. Percutaneous Biopsies - Clinical and Radiological Aspects

10. Percutaneous Biopsies - Histopathological Aspects

11. Histopathological Classification of Benign Lesions

12. Breast Lump

13. Mastalgia

14. Nipple Discharge

15. Gynecomastia

16. Infectious Breast Diseases

17. Classification of Proliferative Breast Lesions

18. Treatment of Proliferative Breast Lesions

19. Ductal Carcinoma in situ

20. Identifying High-Risk Patients

21. Practical Aspects of Genetic Counselling

22. Prevention: Habits and Behavior

23. Chemoprevention

24. Risk Reducing Surgeries

25. Carcinogenesis and Natural History of Breast Cancer

26. Histopathological and Immunohistochemical Classification of Breast Cancer

27. Staging and Prognostic Factors

28. Epidemiology of Breast Cancer

29. Predictive and Prognostic Factors: Genetic Signatures, Adjuvant! and PREDICT

30. Mastectomy

31. Conservative Breast Surgery

32. Surgery of Axillary and Regional Lymph Nodes

33. Surgery of Non-Palpable Breast Lesions

34. Handling the Surgical Specimen

35. Principles of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery

36. Partial Breast Reconstruction - Pedicles

37. Breast Reconstruction with Implants

38. Breast Reconstruction with Myocutaneous Flaps

39. Lipofilling

40. Aesthetic Breast Surgery

41. Early Breast Cancer

42. Locally Advanced Breast Surgery

43. Influence of Histologic, Immunohistochemical and Molecular Types on Therapeutics

44. Inflammatory Carcinoma

45. Invasive Lobular Carcinoma

46. Occult Breast Cancer

47. Paget's Disease

48. Nonepithelial Breast Cancer

49. Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer

50. Breast Cancer in Young Patients

51. Breast Cancer in Elderly Patients

52. Multifocal, Multicentric and Bilateral Carcinoma

53. Breast Cancer in Men

54. Local Relapses

55. Breast Cancer in Patients with Previous Aesthetic Surgery

56. Radiotherapy

57. Hormonal Therapy

58. Adjuvant Chemotherapy

59. Therapy Anti-Her-2

60. Neoadjuvant Therapy

61. Other Systemic Treatments

62. Follow-up

63. Survivorship

64. Physical Rehabilitation after Breast Cancer Treatment

65. Contraception and Infertility

66. Climateric Treatment after Breast Cancer

67. Metastatic Breast Cancer - Therapies and Palliative Care