Endocrine Therapy of Breast Cancer - v. 5

Endocrine mechanisms and breast cancer continue to be important subjects for research in cancer medicine.

This fifth volume of the ESO Task Force on the endocrine therapy of breast cancer provides the reader with an update of recent developments in the field.

The spectrum of the items is remarkably broad and includes the normal breast cell, the cancer cell, mechanisms of resistance to therapeutic agents, new endocrine treatments, the patient with breast cancer, her quality of life, and some public health issues related to the population of women with the disease.