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> A Concise History of Breast Cancer
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> Editor: Marc Lacroix (InTextoResearch, Baelen, Wallonia, Belgium)
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> Nova Sciences Publishers (July 2013)
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> ISBN: 978-1-62618-461-9
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> https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=40565&osCsid=3b13eb0b38fd134aef4d9cc2a4a3e2aa
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> Book description:
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> Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer and the
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> second leading cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer. It is
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> estimated that breast cancer affects more than 1,000,000 women
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> worldwide each year, and about 450,000 die from the disease. During
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> the last decades, breast cancer has received considerable attention,
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> yet it is a very old disease that was described years and years ago.
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> This book provides a summary of breast cancer history. It covers the
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> ages from the ancient times to the early 2000's, but mainly focuses on
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> the 20th century and its numerous discoveries and inventions in the
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> field of breast cancer detection, analysis and treatment.
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> Table of Contents
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> Preface
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> Chapter 1: From Prehistoric Times to the End of the Middle Ages
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> (Egypt, China, India, Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzance, Islamic Spain,
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> Middle Ages)
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> Chapter 2: Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
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> Chapter 3: Nineteenth Century
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> TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND:
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> Chapter 4: Breast Cancer Surgery
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> Chapter 5: Breast Cancer Radiotherapy
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> Chapter 6: Breast Cancer Chemotherapy (including Combination
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> Chemotherapy, Metronomic Chemotherapy...)
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> Chapter 7: Endocrine Therapy of Breast Cancer (including Ovarian
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> Suppressors, Tamoxifen and Estrogen Receptor Regulators, Aromatase
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> Inhibitors...)
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> Chapter 8: Targeted Therapy of Breast Cancer (including Immunotherapy)
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> Chapter 9: Breast Cancer Staging and Grading
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> Chapter 10: Breast Cancer Genetics (including BRCA1, BRCA2...)
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> Chapter 11: Breast Cancer Imaging and Detection (including
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> Mammography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasonography,
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> Optical Imaging, Thermography, Computer Tomography, Positron Emission
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> Tomography, Positron Emission Tomography, PET/CT, Scintigraphy,
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> Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, SPECT/CT,
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> Scintimammography, BSGI, Elastography, Electrical Impedance
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> Tomography...)
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> Chapter 12: Breast Cancer Models (including Mouse Models, Rat Models,
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> Breast Cancer Cell Lines, Breast Cancer Xenografts, Genetically
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> Engineerd Mice, Mammospheres, Breast Cancer Stem Cells...)
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> Books Bibliography
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> Index of names:
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> Abulcasis (Abulkassim Al-Zahrawi); A$(D??(Btius of Amida; Allen, Edgar;
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> Allfrey, Vincent; Arderne (John of); Aselli, Gaspare; Astruc, Jean;
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> Auchincloss, Hugh; Arcamone, Federico; Arnold, Herbert; Avery, Oswald;
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> Baclesse, Fran$(D??(Bois; Bailar, John III; Baillie, Matthew; Banks,
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> William; Bartholin, Thomas; Beatson, Thomas; Bergoni$(D??(B, Jean; Bichat,
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> Xavier; Billroth, Theodore; Bishop, John; Bissell, Mina; Bittner,
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> John; Black, Maurice; Bloodgood, Joseph; Bloom, Julian; Boerhaave,
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> Hermann; Bonadonna, Gianni; Borst, Max; Bourseaux, Friedrich; Boveri,
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> Theodor; Boyd, Stanley; Breasted, James; Brenner, Sidney; Broca,
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> Pierre Paul; Brock, Norbert; Brodie, Angela; Bucalossi, Pietro;
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> Burney, Fanny; Cabanas, Ram$(D??(Bn;
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> C$(D??(Bceres, Eduardo; Cade, Stanford; Celsus, Aulus Cornelius; Chauliac
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> (Gui de); Cheatle, George ; Cohnheim, Julius; Coley, William; Cooper,
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> Astley; Cope, Oliver; Cormack, Allan; Cornil, Victor; Crick, Francis;
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> Crile, George Jr; Cronin, Thomas; Curie, Marie; Curie, Pierre; Cutler,
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> Max; Czerny, Vinzenz; Dahl-Iversen, Erling; Damadian, Raymond;
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> Democedes of Croton; Denoix, Pierre; Descartes, Ren$(D??(B; Despeignes,
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> Victor; Dodds, Edward; Doisy, Edward; Egan, Robert*; Ehrlich, Paul;
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> Ellis, Ian; Elston, Christopher; Fallopio, Gabriele; Farber, Sydney;
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> Firor, Warfield; Fisher, Bernard; Foveau de Courmelles, Fran$(D??(Bois;
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> Franklin, Rosalind; Fraumeni, Joseph; Frei, Emil III; Freireich, Emil;
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> Galen (Claudius Galenus); Gall, Joseph; Gendron, Claude; Gerow, Frank;
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> Gershon-Cohen, Jacob; Gillies, Harold; Gilman, Alfred; Gocht,
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> Hermann; Godinot, Jean; Goodman, Louis; Gouv$(D??(Ba, Hil$(D??(Brio de; Gray,
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> Joseph; Greenough, Robert; Greenspan, Ezra; Gros, Charles; Gross,
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> Samuel; Grubb$(D??(B, Emil; Guillemeau, Jacques; Haagensen, Cushman; Haddow,
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> Alexander; Halsted, William; Hampton, Caroline; Hanau, Arthur;
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> Handley, Richard; Handley, William; Hansemann, David von; Harvey,
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> William; Heidelberger, Charles; Heidenhein, Lothar; Heister, Lorenz;
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> Helvetius, Adrian; Herodotus; Hertz, Roy; Hildanus, Wilhelm Fabricius
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> (Fabrice of Hilden); Hippocrates of Cos; Hoffman, Edward; Hoffmann,
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> Friedrich; Holland, James; Hounsfield, Godfrey; Huebner, Robert;
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> Huggins, Charles; Hungerford, David; Hunter, John; Ingleby, Helen;
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> Jacob, Fran$(D??(Bois; Johansen, Helge; Jordan, Virgil Craig; Kaae, Sigvard;
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> Keynes, Geoffrey; Knudson, Alfred; K$(D??(Bhler, Georges; K$(D??(Bster, Ernst;
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> Lacassagne, Antoine; La$(D??(Bnnec, Ren$(D??(B; Lanfranchi, Guido; Laqueur, Ernst;
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> Larrey, Dominique-Jean; Lasfargues, Etienne; Lathrop, Abbie;
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> Lauterbur, Paul; Lawson, Raymond; Leakey, Louis; Lebert, Hermann;
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> Leborgne, Ra$(D??(Bl; Le Doussal, Viviane; Le Dran, Henri-Fran$(D??(Bois; Lees,
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> James; Leonides of Alexandria; Lerner, Leonard; Lett, Hugh; Li,
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> Frederic; Li, Min Chiu; Lindskog, Gustaf; Lister, Joseph; Loeb, Leo;
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> Loeser, Alfred; Long, Crawford; Louis, Antoine; Luckhardt, Arno;
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> MacDonald, Ian; MacLeod, Colin; Manchot, Carl; Mansfield, Peter;
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> Margottini, Mario; Martynova, RP; McCarty, Maclyn; McWhirter, Robert;
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> Meselson, Matthew; Meyer, Willie; Milstein, C$(D??(Bsar; Mirsky, Alfred*;
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> Mondeville (Henri de); Moore, Charles; Morgagni, Giovanni; Morgan,
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> Thomas; Morton, William; Muller, Hermann; M$(D??(Bller, Johannes; Murley,
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> Reginald; Mustakallio, Sakari; Neal, Donald; Nordling, Carl; Novinsky,
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> Mstislav; Nowell, Peter; Nunn, Thomas; Ochsner, Albert; Oribasius;
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> Osler, William; Ozzello, Luciano; Paget, James; Paget, Stephen;
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> Pancoast, Joseph; Paracelsus (Phillipus von Hohenheim); Pardue, Mary-
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> Lou; Par$(D??(B, Ambroise; Park, Wallace; Pasteur, Louis; Paterson, James;
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> Patey, David; Paul of Aegina; Pecquet, Jean; Petit, Jean-Louis;
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> Peyrilhe, Bernard; Pfahler, George; Phelps, Michael; Pinkel, Daniel;
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> Portmann, Ursus; Pott, Percival; Ramazzini, Bernardino; R$(D??(Bcamier,
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> Joseph; Reid, John; Ribbert, Hugo; Richardson, William; Rigoni-Stern,
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> Domenico; Rodman, William; R$(D??(Bntgen, Wilhelm; Rudbeck, Olof; Russell,
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> Marion; Salomon, Albert; Scarff, Robert; Scultetus, Johannes;
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> Schinzinger, Albert; Severinus, Marcus Aurelius; Sjogren, Tage;
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> Skipper, Howard; Slamon, Dennis; Smith, Edwin; Stahl, Georges-Ernest;
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> St$(D??(Bhelin, Dominique; Steinthal, Karl; Stenbeck, Thor; Stout, Arthur;
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> Strickler, Albert; Sugarbaker, Everett; Tansini, Iginio; Thackray,
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> Alan; Thiersch, Karl; Todaro, George; Tribondeau, Louis; Tyzzer,
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> Ernest; Ulrich, Paul; Urban, Jerome ; Vallebona, Alessandro; Varmus,
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> Harold; Velpeau, Alfred; Veronesi, Umberto; Vesalius, Andreas;
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> Virchow, Rudolph; Volkmann, Richard von; Waldeyer, Wilhelm von;
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> Wangensteen, Owen; Ward, Roy; Warren, Stafford; Watson, James; Wild,
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> John; Wilkins, Maurice; Williams, Ivor; Winge, $(D??(Bjvind; Wise, Leslie;
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> Winiwarter, Alexander von; Zur Hausen, Harald