Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Epidemiology and screening / Brian E. Henderson and Heather S. Feigelson -- 2. Pathology / Franco Rilke and Silvana Di Palma -- 3. Prognostic factors in breast cancer / Peter M. Ravdin -- 4. The management of inherited breast cancer risk / James Mackay and Bruce A. J. Ponder -- 5. Current role of the surgeon in collaborating with medical oncologists / John F. Forbes -- 6. Primary chemotherapy / Ian E. Smith and Paul N. Mainwaring -- 7. Conventional adjuvant chemotherapy / Gianni Bonadonna and Pinuccia Valagussa -- 8. Conventional adjuvant hormonal therapy / Kathleen I. Pritchard -- 9. Locally advanced breast cancer / Gabriel N. Hortobagyi and Aman U. Buzdar -- 10. Routine management of disseminated disease (including anti-osteoclastic therapy) / Robert D. Rubens -- 11. Salvage therapy after adjuvant systemic therapy / Monica Castiglione-Gertsch and Pinuccia Valagussa -- 12. Radiotherapy plus chemotherapy: concomitant or sequential delivery / Beryl McCormick --

13. Long-term side effects from systemic drug therapy / Ligia Bruno da Costa and Jean Pierre Armand -- 14. Supportive care: chemotherapy-induced emesis and cancer pain / Makoto Ogawa and Yutaka Ariyoshi -- 15. Two decades of psychosocial research: an overview for the practitioner / Barbara F. Rabinowitz -- 16. New chemotherapy drugs / Luca Gianni and Giuseppe Capri -- 17. New hormones / Manfred Kaufmann and Gunter von Minckwitz -- 18. The role of high-dose chemotherapy in breast cancer / Sjoerd Rodenhuis -- 19. Current and future role of growth factors in the management of breast cancer / Sebastian Fetscher and Roland Mertelsmann -- 21. Breast cancer chemoprevention / Jenny Chang and Trevor Powles -- 22. Routine treatment versus controlled trials / Gianni Bonadonna, A. Massimo Gianni and Pinuccia Valagussa [et al.].