Breast Cancer: Multidisciplinary Pathways for Cancer Care in the Community

Because most cancer care is delivered in the community setting, Breast Cancer, edited by Dr. James L. Weese, looks at the management of breast cancer through the lens of multidisciplinary pathways focused on evidence-based, real-world care of breast cancer patients in the community. A multidisciplinary team of expert authors provides state-of-the-art guidance from the perspective of community practitioners using an evidence-based model, clearly showing the thought processes used to make treatment decisions in today’s breast cancer management.

Key Features

• Discusses all the latest breakthrough therapies for breast cancer, including chemotherapeutic, molecular, and immunologic agents, as well as new developments in precision-based medicine, pharmacology, breast cancer surgery, breast and lymphatic reconstruction, radiation therapy, and more.

• Provides strategies for targeted radiation therapy and conservative breast surgery for contemporary breast cancer treatment

• Features more than 200 high-quality figures throughout, including pathways, anatomic, radiographic, and graphic images.

• Models a consistent, team-based thought process used at leading academic institutions to foster consistent decision making applied to the community setting.

• Includes key points at the beginning of each chapter that highlight essential concepts and topics

• An ideal resource for practicing medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, and radiation therapists, trainees and practitioners in related fields, and oncology nurses and case managers.

• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

BREAST CANCER CARE IN THE COMMUNITY
Ch 1 Overview of Breast Cancer Care Settings

• Briefly touch on settings where care is delivered with a focus on community
• Why community care is different and important

Ch 2 Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Breast Cancer

• Personnel and roles of multidisciplinary team members
• Pathways as tools for facilitating effective multidisciplinary care management
• Team-based treatment planning

Ch 3 Role of the Nurse Navigator

• Unique and important role as facilitator of care

PART TWO PATIENT SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS AND EVALUATION IN THE COMMUNITY
Ch 4 Breast Cancer Screening

• Importance of
• Diagnostic criteria
• Data on outcomes
• Radiologic techniques
• Screening and management of patients at high risk to develop breast cancer

Ch 5 Outcomes and Quality Indicators

• Data and ways to improve cancer treatment

Ch 6 Evaluation and Treatment in the Underserved Community

• Community outreach
• Goals and strategies

PART THREE BREAST CANCER TREATMENT IN THE COMMUNITY
Ch 7 Contemporary Surgical Approaches to Breast Cancer

• Biopsy techniques
• Surgical options
• Oncoplastic procedures
• Reconstruction
• Management of the axilla, lymphedema, the "other" breast,
• Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS)

Ch 8 Radiation Therapy

• Whole Breast
• Segmental
• IORT

Ch 9 Chemotherapy

• Adjuvant
• Neoadjuvant
• Metastatic disease, precision medicine
• Therapy changes based on precision medicine and molecular testing
• Immunotherapy

Ch 10 Precision Medicine

• Receptors

Ch 11 Treatment-Related Symptom and Toxicity Management
PART FOUR FOLLOW UP AND AFTER CARE
Ch 12 Rehabilitation
Ch 13 Nutrition
Ch 14 Survivorship
Ch 15 Palliative Care and Hospice
PART FIVE RELATED TOPICS FOR DELIVERY OF CARE TODAY AND TOMORROW
Ch 16 Genetics and Prevention

• Patients at high risk for breast cancer

Ch 17 Financial Navigation

• Coping with high cost of new drugs

Ch 18 Expectations for the Future

Author Information

Edited by James L. Weese, MD, FACS, Vice President, Aurora Cancer Services, Aurora Health Care, Clinical Adjunct Professor of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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