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Quest for the Cure

Reflections on the Evolution of Breast Cancer Treatment

  • 1st Edition - October 16, 2013
  • Author: George R. Blumenschein
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 2 0 1 5 3 - 8
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 2 0 2 0 8 - 5

This original fourteen chapter book is a brief, slightly autobiographic tale of medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, and breast cancer patients in a we… Read more

Quest for the Cure

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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.