Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Foreword, Robert C. Young, MD -- Preface -- Contributors -- I CLINICAL MANAGEMENT -- 1 Epidemiology and Clinical Risk Factors -- Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD -- 2 Breast Imaging -- Julia A. Birnbaum, MD, and Emily F. Conant, MD -- 3 Breast Biopsy Techniques -- Lisa A. Newman, MD, and Frederick C. Ames, MD -- 4 Clinical Classifications of Breast Cancer -- Michael H. Torosian, MD, FACS -- 5 Breast-Conserving Surgery: -- Lumpectomy With or Without Axillary Dissection -- Samuel W. Beenken, MD, and Kirby L Bland, MD -- 6 Mastectomy -- David R. Brenin, MD, and David W. Kinne, MD -- 7 Breast Reconstruction -- Louis P. Bucky, MD, and Gary A. Tuma, MD -- 8 Radiation Therapy -- Barbara Fowble, MD, and Gary Freedman, MD -- 9 Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer -- Michael P. Russin, MD, and Lori J. Goldstein, MD -- 10 Hormonal Therapy of Breast Cancer -- Halle C. F. Moore, MD, and Kevin R. Fox, MD -- 11 The Role of Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer -- Lori Jardines, MD -- 12 Male Breast Cancer -- Mahmoud El-Tamer, MD, FACS, and Lucy J. Kim, MD -- 13 Oncogenes in the Development of Breast Cancer -- Xiao Tan Qiao, MD, Kenneth L. van Golen, PhD, -- and Sofia D. Merajver, MD, PhD -- II SPECIAL CLINICAL SITUATIONS -- 14 Primary Chemotherapy -- Deborah L. Toppmeyer, MD -- 15 Axillary Adenopathy as the Initial Presentation of Breast Cancer -- Shirley Scott, MD, and Monica Morrow, MD -- 16 Breast Cancer During Pregnancy -- Mary L. Gemignani, MD, and Jeanne A. Petrek, MD -- 17 Local-Regional Recurrence in Breast Cancer -- Thomas J. Kearney, MD, FACS, and David A. August, MD, FACS -- 18 Nipple Discharge -- Marcia Boraas, MD -- 19 Sarcoma and Lymphoma of the Breast: -- Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment -- Helena Chang, MD, PhD, and Jane Kakkis, MD -- III CURRENT CONTROVERSIES AND RESEARCH -- 20 Breast Conservation Without Radiation Therapy -- for Carcinoma of the Breast -- Gordon F. Schwartz, MD, MBA -- 21 Axillary Node Dissection in Breast Cancer -- James F. Pingpank, Jr., MD, and Elin R. Sigurdson, MD, PhD -- 22 Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes: Management and Other Controversies -- James C. Watson, MD, and John P. Hoffman, MD -- 23 High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation -- for Breast Cancer -- Edward A. Stadtmauer, MD -- 24 Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy for Breast Cancer -- Daniela Santoli, PhD, and Sophie Visonneau, PhD -- Index.