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Breast Cancer

Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options

  • Brings up-to-date nuclear medical knowledge in breast cancer
  • Information on the advances in the field of diagnosis
  • Data on the development of some new modalities
  • General overview of the available tools for breast cancer treatment
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-1
  3. Histological Classification of Breast Cancer

    • Alessandra Fabbri, Maria Luisa Carcangiu, Antonino Carbone
    Pages 3-14
  4. Biomarkers for Breast Cancer: Towards the Proposition of Clinically Relevant Tools

    • Maria Grazia Daidone, Vera Cappelletti, Angelo Paradiso, Massimo Gion, Nadia Harbeck, Fred Sweep et al.
    Pages 15-32
  5. Circulating Tumour Markers in Breast Cancer

    • Ettore Seregni, Antonio Coli, Nicola Mazzuca
    Pages 33-42
  6. Breast Imaging with Scintimammography

    • Orazio Schillaci, John R. Buscombe
    Pages 57-70
  7. 99mTc-MIBI in the Evaluation of Breast Cancer Biology

    • Silvana Del Vecchio, Antonella Zannetti, Rosa Fonti, Francesca Iommelli, Marco Salvatore
    Pages 71-81
  8. Sentinel Node Detection in Pre-Operative Axillary Staging

    • Giovanni Paganelli, Giuseppe Trifirò, Oreste Gentilini, Mattia Intra, Giuseppe Viale, Umberto Veronesi
    Pages 83-98
  9. New Trends of MRI in Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    • Daniele Vergnaghi, Giovanna Trecate, Siranoush Manoukian
    Pages 127-144
  10. PET Imaging of Breast Cancer Molecular Biomarkers

    • Elisabetta Brugola, Andreas K. Buck, Luca Tagliabue, Sven N. Reske, Giovanni Lucignani
    Pages 145-156
  11. The Role of FDG-PET for Axillary Lymph Node Staging in Primary Breast Cancer

    • Flavio Crippa, Alberto Gerali, Alessandra Alessi, Roberto Agresti, Emilio Bombardieri
    Pages 157-167
  12. Measuring Response to Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: Methodological Considerations

    • Nanda C. Krak, Otto S. Hoekstra, Adriaan A. Lammertsma
    Pages 169-180
  13. FDG-PET in Monitoring Therapy of Breast Cancer

    • Hans-Jürgen Biersack, Hans Bender, Holger Palmedo
    Pages 181-188
  14. FDG-PET and Tumour Marker Tests for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

    • Emilio Bombardieri, Alessandra Alessi, Federica Pallotti, Gianluca Serafini, Nicola Mazzuca, Ettore Seregni et al.
    Pages 189-200
  15. Advantages and Limitations of FDG PET 16 in the Follow-Up of Breast Cancer

    • Peter Lind, Isabel Igerc, Thomas Beyer, Abdul Jalil Nordin, Peter Reinprecht, Klaus Hausegger
    Pages 201-215
  16. PET/CT and Breast Cancer

    • Maria Picchio, Cristina Messa, Barbara Zangheri, Claudio Landoni, Luigi Gianolli, Ferruccio Fazio
    Pages 217-226
  17. Current Role of Bone Scan with Phosphonates in the Follow-Up of Breast Cancer

    • Lorenzo Maffioli, Luigia Florimonte, Luca Pagani, Ivana Butti, Isabel Roca
    Pages 227-238
  18. Progress in the Treatment of Early and Advanced Breast Cancer

    • Valentina Guarneri, Federico Piacentini, Pier Franco Conte
    Pages 239-256

Reviews

From the reviews:

"This book provides a complete overview of the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of nuclear medicine in breast cancer. … The audience includes nuclear medicine professions, radiologists, oncologists, and residents and fellows in those fields. This book is a valuable aid for new practitioners as well as experienced nuclear medicine physicians who are called upon for treatment of breast cancer. … This excellent book will be a great addition to any nuclear medicine physician’s library … ." (Oussama Nachar, Doody's Review Service, February, 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Nuclear Medicine Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy

    Emilio Bombardieri

  • Division of Medical Oncology Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy

    Luca Gianni

  • Perspective Clinical Trials Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy

    Gianni Bonadonna

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Breast Cancer

  • Book Subtitle: Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options

  • Editors: Emilio Bombardieri, Luca Gianni, Gianni Bonadonna

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36781-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-36780-2Published: 12 November 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07186-7Published: 14 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-36781-9Published: 22 December 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 299

  • Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Imaging / Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Gynecology, Diagnostic Radiology

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