Quest for the Cure: Reflections on the Evolution of Breast Cancer Treatment - Softcover

Blumenschein, George R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124201539 ISBN 13: 9780124201538

Publisher: Academic Press, 2009

Synopsis

This original fourteen chapter book is a brief, slightly autobiographic tale of medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, and breast cancer patients in a well-established cancer center in Texas, who pursued the goal of cure for breast cancer. The evolution of improved outcomes in the treatment of microscopic metastatic breast cancer is also the story of the development of adjuvant chemotherapy for post-operative breast disease. The adjuvant therapy of breast cancer came about with the realization that this malignancy, when diagnosed in most patients, had spread beyond the confines of the primary cancer.

About this title

About the Author

George R. Blumenschein, M.D. led a team of brilliant young researchers at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center who established Adriamycin as a mainstay of contemporary breast cancer treatment regimens. This book is intended to empower interested individuals by chronicling the development and explaining the rationale underlying contemporary multimodal breast cancer therapy and by providing illustrative patient histories.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0124201539
• ISBN 13: 9780124201538
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 108