Breast cancer: Overview & updates.
Summary of "Breast cancer: Overview & updates."
ABSTRACT:
Breast cancer is a complex disease and treatment recommendations are continually changing. It is the leading cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer mortality. This overview of breast cancer will discuss pathologic features, local and systemic treatment considerations, endocrine therapy, metastatic treatment regimens, and follow-up for optimal breast health. Recent approvals that advance the treatment of metastatic breast cancer are also addressed.
Affiliation
Catherine Downs-Holmes is an NP in Breast Medical Oncology at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, OH. Paula Silverman is an associate professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University and medical director o
Journal Details
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Name: The Nurse practitioner
ISSN: 1538-8662
Pages: 20-6
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22089837
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.NPR.0000407602.29522.d7
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Inflammatory Breast Neoplasms
Metastatic breast cancer characterized by EDEMA and ERYTHEMA of the affected breast due to LYMPHATIC METASTASIS and eventual obstruction of LYMPHATIC VESSELS by the cancer cells.
Carcinoma, Lobular
A infiltrating (invasive) breast cancer, relatively uncommon, accounting for only 5%-10% of breast tumors in most series. It is often an area of ill-defined thickening in the breast, in contrast to the dominant lump characteristic of ductal carcinoma. It is typically composed of small cells in a linear arrangement with a tendency to grow around ducts and lobules. There is likelihood of axillary nodal involvement with metastasis to meningeal and serosal surfaces. (DeVita Jr et al., Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 3d ed, p1205)
Mucin-1
Carbohydrate antigen elevated in patients with tumors of the breast, ovary, lung, and prostate as well as other disorders. The mucin is expressed normally by most glandular epithelia but shows particularly increased expression in the breast at lactation and in malignancy. It is thus an established serum marker for breast cancer.
Breast Neoplasms
Tumors or cancer of the human BREAST.
Brca1 Protein
The phosphoprotein encoded by the BRCA1 gene (GENE, BRCA1). In normal cells the BRCA1 protein is localized in the nucleus, whereas in the majority of breast cancer cell lines and in malignant pleural effusions from breast cancer patients, it is localized mainly in the cytoplasm. (Science 1995;270(5237):713,789-91)
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