Common Issues in Breast Cancer Survivors. A Practical Guide to Evaluation and Management

Overview of the National and International Guidelines for Care of Breast Cancer Survivors.- Breast Imaging in Breast Cancer Survivors: Screening for New Breast Cancers and for Cancer Recurrence.- Hot Flashes.- Management of Genital Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors.- Sexual and Reproductive Health Concerns in Breast Cancer Survivors.- Arthralgias.- Persistent Breast Pain (PBP).- Common Issues in Breast Cancer Survivors - A Practical Guide to Evaluation and Management of Neuropathy.- Cancer-related Cognitive Impairment.- Cancer-Related Fatigue.- Sleep Issues and Insomnia.- Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms and Disorders in Women with Breast Cancer.- Obesity, Weight Gain and Weight Management in Women with Early Breast Cancer.- Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema and Shoulder Impairments- Physical Therapy and Plastic Surgery.- Bone Loss in Breast Cancer Survivors.- Cardiovascular Health in Breast Cancer Survivors.- Diabetes and Breast Cancer.- Hair Loss in Breast Cancer Survivors.- Skin Reactions Associated with Breast Cancer Treatment.- Hereditary Cancer Counseling and Germline Genetic Testing.- Common Considerations in Male Breast Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Evaluation and Management.

This book provides a clinically useful resource for evaluation and management of the symptoms and issues that burden survivors of breast cancer. Improvements to breast cancer screening and treatment have resulted in more patients than ever before having been cured after local definitive and systemic therapies. Primary care providers and specialists must be increasingly familiar with the issues that breast cancer survivors routinely face. This is the first book to provide a single resource for common issues faced by breast cancer survivors from a truly multidisciplinary perspective; each chapter of this text is coauthored by at least one oncologist and one specialist outside the field of oncology in order to include the perspectives of relevant disciplines. User-friendly and clinically applicable to all specialties, individual chapters also include tables and figures that describe how best to conduct initial evaluation of the given symptom as well as an algorithm, where applicable, outlining the optimal management approach.

Common Issues in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Evaluation and Management empowers non-cancer specialists and practitioners who care for breast cancer survivors to address common issues that impact patient quality of life.

Author Information

Gretchen G. Kimmick
Duke University/Medical Oncology
Durham, NC
USA

Rebecca A. Shelby
Duke University/Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Durham, NC
USA

Linda M. Sutton
Duke University/Medical Oncology
Durham, NC
USA