Table of Contents

1. What happens after a biopsy or excision of breast tissue? Understanding specimen processing and examination

2. Breast core biopsies: diagnosis, diagnostic terms and what do they mean?

3. Breast excisions, lumpectomies and mastectomies: reporting on large specimens

4. Breast tumour morphologic types

5. Diagnostic immunohistochemistry: how and when stains should be used

6. Current prognostic/predictive marker testing in breast cancer

7. Molecular testing in breast carcinoma

8. Neoadjuvant therapy in breast cancer: what breast cancer care providers need to know?

9. Frequently asked questions

Index

About the Author

Rohit Bhargava MBBS
Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA (USA), Director, Anatomic Pathology, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, USA