Breast surgery:

"Breast cancer represents the most common cancer that affects women of the industrial and impoverished nations of the world; this neoplasm has a lifetime risk to affect one in every eight women of the industrialized countries with various presentations and stages of disease. Surgical therapy re...

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Other Authors: Bland, Kirby I. (Editor), Klimberg, V. Suzanne (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia ; Baltimore ; New York ; London ; Buenos Aires ; Hong Kong Sydney ; Tokyo Wolters Kluwer 2019
Edition:Second edition
Series:Master techniques in surgery
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Summary:"Breast cancer represents the most common cancer that affects women of the industrial and impoverished nations of the world; this neoplasm has a lifetime risk to affect one in every eight women of the industrialized countries with various presentations and stages of disease. Surgical therapy remains one of the principal modalities utilized to treat this organ -centric cancer. Surgical treatment of breast cancer has evolved over the past century from radical debilitating surgeries to minimally- invasive approaches that have advanced with earlier diagnosis and highly- effective neoadjuvant therapies. These more plausible and highly acceptable minimally -invasive techniques have progressed from disfiguring procedures to reconstruction excellence. Moreover, the entire field of breast cancer surgery is advancing very rapidly globally, thus, many of the procedures illustrated in this text are not readily applied in community surgical practice and certainly not in such an eclectic textural format"...Provided by publisher
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xxi, 652 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9781496380876

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