Introduction --;General --;Surgery --;Radiotherapy --;Hormonal Therapy --;Chemotherapy-General --;Therapy-Adjuvant --;Chemotherapy-Metastatic --;Inflammatory Breast Cancer --;Stage III Breast Cancer --;Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation --;Therapeutic Aspects of Tumor Biology Research --;Summary --;Subject Index.
The main problems and results of the therapy given to high-risk breast cancer patients are reviewed in this volume by leading investigators. Their approach assumes that a quantitative assessment of the risk has been made at diagnosis, which permits selective therapies for individual patients. This is the most effective way to avoid overtreating the low-risk and undertreating the high-risk patient.