Breast Pathology, 3rd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide for Surgical Pathologists

Written with practicality in mind, Breast Pathology, 3rd Edition provides surgical pathologists with authoritative guidance on the selection and best use of proper diagnostic techniques when reporting on breast specimens. Dr. David J. Dabbs and a team of internationally acclaimed pathologists bring together genomic and molecular information, gross and microscopic findings, radiologic and laboratory diagnosis, theranostics, and immunohistochemistry to cover every aspect of benign and malignant lesions of the breast.

Stay Up-to-Date with Recent Advances in Breast Pathology

This comprehensive guide brings you fully up to date with recent advances, including:

• New molecular information for breast entities
• New surgical techniques
• More widely used multigene prognostic tests
• Assays used to determine treatment, such as PD-L1 as a new immunotherapy biomarker for triple-negative breast cancer

Organization and Features

Each topical chapter is organized around relevant genomic and molecular information, clinical presentation, gross and microscopic pathologic findings, and diagnostic and molecular immunohistochemistry. This book:

• Mappings immunohistochemistry for each entity according to diagnostic, theranostic, and genomic applications, with specific regard to disease entities in each chapter
• Discusses breast specimen handling in detail to assure proper sampling and processing for optimal molecular and immunohistochemistry resulting
• Supplies a convenient quick reference at the beginning of each chapter that includes all relevant diagnostic, theranostic, and genomic data for fast retrieval
• Features approximately 2,000 full-color pathological images that clearly depict clinical, radiological, molecular, immunohistochemical, and theranostic aspects of disease
• Includes biomarker guideline updates throughout
• Reflects updates to new tumor staging data in the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 8th Edition and updated ASCO/CAP guidelines for interpreting HER2 assays

Enhanced eBook Version Included

Your purchase also includes an enhanced eBook version, allowing you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Publisher: Elsevier
Edition: 3rd edition
Publication Date: August 23, 2023
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 1019
ISBN-10: 0323795226
ISBN-13: 978-0323795227