Designed in a small-format for practical reading and point-of-care setting use, this work presents the most up-to-date concepts on breast diseases. The main objective of this book is to propagate current knowledge of the most frequent breast diseases, being a quick reference, evidence-based manual covering the major clinical scenarios in mastology. The essence of the work can be summarized in the following sentence: "access to maximum content in the least amount of time."

The book contains data that will allow readers to understand and treat patients with different complaints and diseases. Each chapter presents a flow chart and a summary of the five major publications on the subject. This is unique in comparison with other books in this medical specialty.

Developed by a team of international expert specialists who deal with breast pathologies on a daily basis, the book also includes additional contributions from experienced, renowned professionals in interdisciplinary specialties related to the main area.

This book will be of interest to physicians who deal with breast diseases and wish to improve their knowledge through exposure to state-of-the-art data and best practices advice. It is also directed to medical students and residents in training within mastology.
(This title was originally published in Portuguese by the Brazilian publisher Atheneu in 2011 and has sold very well and gone into a third edition, published in 2017.  The Editors have all English language rights, detailed in the attached contract, although it is in Portuguese).

Classification BI-RADS®. - Mammography

Ultrasound
Magnetic Resonance Scanning
Nuclear Medicine: PET Scan, Breast Scintigraphy and MBI
Other Imaging Methods
Mammographic Screening
Special Screening Situations
Percutaneous Biopsies - Clinical and Radiological Aspects
Percutaneous Biopsies - Histopathological Aspects
Histopathological Classification of Benign Lesions
Breast Lump
Mastalgia
Nipple Discharge
Gynecomastia
Infectious Breast Diseases
Classification of Proliferative Breast Lesions
Treatment of Proliferative Breast Lesions
Ductal Carcinoma in situ
Identifying High-Risk Patients
Practical Aspects of Genetic Counselling
Prevention: Habits and Behavior
Chemoprevention
Risk Reducing Surgeries
Carcinogenesis and Natural History of Breast Cancer
Histopathological and Immunohistochemical Classification of Breast Cancer
Staging and Prognostic Factors
Epidemiology of Breast Cancer
Predictive and Prognostic Factors: Genetic Signatures, Adjuvant! and PREDICT
Mastectomy
Conservative Breast Surgery
Surgery of Axillary and Regional Lymph Nodes
Surgery of Non-Palpable Breast Lesions
Handling the Surgical Specimen
Principles of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
Partial Breast Reconstruction - Pedicles
Breast Reconstruction with Implants
Breast Reconstruction with Myocutaneous Flaps
Lipofilling
Aesthetic Breast Surgery
Early Breast Cancer
Locally Advanced Breast Surgery
Influence of Histologic, Immunohistochemical and Molecular Types on Therapeutics
Inflammatory Carcinoma
Invasive Lobular Carcinoma
Occult Breast Cancer
Paget's Disease
Nonepithelial Breast Cancer
Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer in Young Patients
Breast Cancer in Elderly Patients
Multifocal, Multicentric and Bilateral Carcinoma
Breast Cancer in Men
Local Relapses
Breast Cancer in Patients with Previous Aesthetic Surgery
Radiotherapy
Hormonal Therapy
Adjuvant Chemotherapy
Therapy Anti-Her-2
Neoadjuvant Therapy
Other Systemic Treatments
Follow-up
Survivorship
Physical Rehabilitation after Breast Cancer Treatment
Contraception and Infertility
Climateric Treatment after Breast Cancer
Metastatic Breast Cancer - Therapies and Palliative Care.