Skip to main content

Breast Cancer Management for Surgeons

An Examination Guide

  • Textbook
  • © 2023

Overview

  • Easy reference, optimised for exam revision 'on the go'

  • Linked to the European Breast Exam and a useful revision guide for the FRCS part 3, breast component

  • The contents extract and distil the key messages required and give self-test opportunities in the last chapter

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

eBook USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 64.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Basic Science

  2. Radiology

  3. Pathology

  4. Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction

  5. Clinical Presentation

  6. Early Breast Cancer: Treatment Tailoring

Keywords

About this book

This book is a revision companion for the UEMS breast exam. The contents extract and distil the key messages and facts of the exam-linked textbook, published in 2017, giving self-test opportunities in the last chapter. Each chapter starts by listing the key facts. The chapters have been edited by the exam board in collaboration with most of the authors of the original chapters of key relevance.

The book is specifically designed to complement the UEMS breast surgery exam which is held once a year. In addition there are two feeder courses for the exam, the EBSQ exam Preparatory Course by the Division of Breast Surgery and the Advanced Course on Breast Cancer by the ESSO, each of which run yearly. There are several other postgraduate courses that could support by the book. The book is also of interest to candidates sitting the FRCS exam with a special interest in breast surgery. 

The last Chapter describes the format of the exams, the scoring system and presents examples of both, the written (MCQ) and the oral examination. The MCQ part contains a questions section with 25 MCQs, including the correct answers at the end. A Clinical Case scenario is also presented with indicative questions similar to those discussed during the oral exam and a list of Academic papers included for discussion in recent oral exams, along with indicative questions is also included.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Med Sch, 2nd Department Propedeutic Surgery, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Christos Markopoulos

  • Section for Breast Surgery Department of Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    Andreas Karakatsanis

About the editors

Christos Markopoulos is Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece and Head of the Breast Unit. He is the President of the Division of Breast Surgery of the UEMS Section of Surgery  and the founder and Chair of the Hellenic Society of Breast Surgeons (2000-2015). He is an active member of multiple Breast International Societies, including British Association of Breast Surgery (ABS) and European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) and has been elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA).

Professor Markopoulos has published over 300 scientific papers in peer reviewed national and international medical journals having over 9,000 citations and has also authored several books on the management of breast disease.

Andreas Karakatsanis is Associate Professor of Breast Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden and a Senior Consultant Oncoplastic Surgeon in the Breast Unit of the Uppsala University Hospital (Akademiska). He is member of the Executive Committee of the Division of Breast Surgery of the UEMS Section of Surgery and Board Member of the Swedish Society for Breast Surgery. He is an active member of multiple International Societies, including the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO), the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA) and a member of the Scientific Committee of the EUBREAST Research Group and the BRESO initiative.

Dr Karakatsanis has published extensively in peer reviewed in international medical journals having over 1,000 citations and has also authored several books on the management of benign and  malignant breast disease.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Breast Cancer Management for Surgeons

  • Book Subtitle: An Examination Guide

  • Editors: Christos Markopoulos, Andreas Karakatsanis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37752-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37751-8Published: 04 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37752-5Published: 03 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 469

  • Topics: Surgical Oncology, Oncology

Publish with us