Practical Breast Pathology Book

Description

Preface

With recent understanding of breast tumor biology and rapid advances in breast cancer treatment, timely updates on diagnostic surgical pathology of breast disease become keenly necessary and important. The purpose of this book is to provide a practical, evidence-based, up-to-date, problem-solving guide to frequently encountered diagnostic problems, challenges, and controversies in breast pathology and associated molecular pathology practice, with emphasis on addressing diagnostic issues that have significant impact on clinical management.

This textbook is based on a PubMed (US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland) literature review and the editors’ and chapter authors’ personal experiences. It consists of ten chapters with an abundance of color photomicrographs and images. The book is organized in a question-and-answer format accompanied by case presentations. We hope this format will facilitate finding answers to frequently asked questions in breast pathology. The book also discusses genetic alterations and molecular abnormalities in breast cancer and commonly encountered interpretation dilemmas regarding immunohistochemistry in breast cancer and metastatic cancer to the breast, with a focus on prognostic and predictive tumor biomarkers. In addition, the book covers some uncommon, diagnostically challenging breast lesions.

We hope that practicing pathologists and pathologists-in-training will find this book helpful for efficiently solving diagnostic problems in their daily practice in breast pathology.

Dallas, TX, USA (Yan Peng, MD, PhD)

Maywood, IL, USA (Ping Tang, MD, PhD)

Content

• Intraductal Proliferative Disease of the Breast
• Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (NOS) of the Breast
• Invasive Carcinoma of the Breast: Special Types
• Lobular Breast Lesions
• Lobular Breast Lesions
• Fibro epithelial Lesions (Phloxes Tumor and Fibro adenoma) of the Breast
• Immunohistochemistry in Breast Cancer .
• Breast Cancer with Hereditary Cancer Predisposition Syndromes
• Mesenchyme and Lymphoid Lesions in the Breast
• Metastatic Cancer in the Breast
• Index