Pathology of Female Cancers Gebunden

This book focuses on precursor lesions borderline lesions and early carcinomas of female-specific organs from the standpoint of pathology. In 2012 WHO Classification of Tumours of the Breast was revised and subsequently in 2014 the WHO Classification of Tumours of Female Reproductive Organs was revised. In these latest versions several new concepts are addressed that were not described in the previous editions and many of them are related to the awareness of the specific pathogenesis of tumors in female patients. Although some of these issues are still controversial several paradigm sh ifts should be understood by medical scientists. Thus researchers diagnostic pathologists and clinicians must share current information about what is taking place in the field and what the next issue to resolve is. This volume greatly broadens the reader¿s understanding of the new concepts and paradigm shifts as it includes information on how to diagnose and make differential diagnoses on a practical basis and also provides a thorough explanation of the molecular¿clinicopathologic basis of the new concepts. The book thus benefits gynecologists breast surgeons gynecologic¿medical oncologists and cytotechnologists.