Full Description
Developing or existing breast cancer centres strive to provide the highest quality care possible within their current financial and personnel resources. Although the basics in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer are well known, providing, monitoring, and assessing the care offered can be challenging for most sites.
Based on the work of the International Congress of Breast Disease Centres, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how to start or improve a breast unit wherever you live. Written by a multidisciplinary team of over 100 experts from 25 countries, it provides a practical guide for how to optimally organise high quality integrated breast cancer care, whilst taking into account the local economics and resources available to different countries.
Each component of the care pathway, including imaging, surgery, systemic treatment, nursing, and genetic assessment, is discussed from a theoretical and practical aspect. The authors define targets to strive for, methods to assess care, and key recommendations for how to improve within existing limitations. Finally, the book looks beyond the breast care unit to consider accreditation and certification, emerging technologies, media, and the role of governments.
This guide will be valuable for anyone working in the field of integrated breast cancer care, including established breast care experts, those new to the field, and policy makers interested in the social, financial, and political aspects of improving breast care quality.
Contents
Part 1: Epidemiology 1: The global burden of malignant breast cancer in women 2: Cancer registries Part 2: Quality management of breast cancer: accreditation programs and quality control 3: Opportunities and pitfalls of quality management 4: EUSOMA : Pioneering mastology and breast centres networking 5: What defines a breast center?: A NAPBC vision 6: A view on 'Patient-reported outcome measures' 7: Examples of national programs on quality management 8: Educational and training harmonisation in breast care Part 3: The guidelines 9: The role of guidelines in breast cancer management in different resource settings Part 4: The multidisciplinary meeting 10: The multidisciplinary meeting: hallmark of multidisciplinary care Part 5: Quality control of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment 11: Radiology 12: Pathology 13: Surgery 14: Reconstructive surgery, including oncoplastic surgery 15: Radiotherapy 16: Global requirements for systemic therapy 17: Primary care providers (general practitioners): a shared care approach 18: End of life care 19: Nursing clinics, nurse practitioners, and navigators 20: Psycho-oncological care and survivorship 21: Genetics Part 6: Health information technology (HIT) 22: Improving treatment value using HIT 23: Use of HIT for remote advice Part 7: Breast cancer research 24: The changing clinical research pathway 25: Global perspective 26: FUTURE: Challenges and Threats Part 8: The economics of breast cancer care 27: Assessing costs and value for money of breast cancer care 28: The economic impact of breast cancer in the Southeast Asian region 29: Moving from a 'one size fits all' to a personalized strategy Part 9: Patients, physicians, and the media 30: Patients, physicians, and the media: who controls the message? 31: Medico-legal aspects Part 10: The role of governments and executives 32: A European perspective 33: Perspectives on the governance and management of breast care in the US 34: Perspective from Latin-America 35: Perspective from India 36: Perspective from South Africa and Subsahara region 37: Optimization of breast cancer management in low and middle income countries 38: Conclusion
