Pregnancy associated breast cancer (PABC). Aspects in diagnosis

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Έρευνα στην Γυναικεία Αναπαραγωγή
Library of the School of Health Sciences
Deposit date:
2015-03-27
Year:
2015
Author:
Κακουλίδης Ιωάννης
Supervisors info:
Επίκουρος Καθηγήτρια Κυτταρολογίας Πολίτη Αικατερίνη (επιβλέπουσα), Επίκουρος Καθηγήτρια Κυτταρολογίας Θωμοπούλου Γεωργία, Επίκουρος Καθηγήτρια Παθολογικής Ανατομικής Νόννη Αφροδίτη
Original Title:
Καρκίνος μαστού σχετιζόμενος με την κύηση. Νεότερα δεδομένα στη διαγνωστική προσέγγιση
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Pregnancy associated breast cancer (PABC). Aspects in diagnosis
Summary:
Diagnosis of a clinical entity like pregnancy associated breast cancer (PABC)
is as demanding and challenging as its rarity. Increasing incidence and
controversy that exists in the literature upon prognosis, tumor aggressiveness
and underlying mechanisms, highlight the importance of optimizing the
diagnostic strategy in women with PABC. The influence of pregnancy upon the
risk for breast cancer is dependent on several maternal features related to
reproductive, genetic and hormonal factors. Considering that there has been
noticed a large-scale change in lifestyle, maternal age and childbearing trend
in women worldwide, it becomes more urgent for healthcare providers to reform
their diagnostic management. Adjustment of standard approach for breast cancer
by modifying management methods and options plays key role in decision making.
Knowledge of diagnostic modalities and their limitations, in accordance with
awareness of physiologic hormone-induced changes of pregnancy and lactation,
enhanced by the analysis of the risk factors that contribute in the association
between pregnancy and breast cancer, is the fundamental method of diagnosis in
PABC. Addressing the aim of this review by defining the strategic role of the
relations and possible interactions between risk factors and the importance of
diagnostic modalities analysis, Medline/PubMed and Google Scholar databases
were searched assembling a total of 119 articles to be included in this review.
Keywords:
Breast cancer, Pregnancy associated breast cancer, Breast cancer diagnosis, Pregnancy, Risk factors
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Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
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Number of references:
119
Number of pages:
ii, 78
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