Breast Disorders

The following articles written by doctors and specialists from Westmead Breast Cancer Institute were originally published in Australian Family Physician (AFP). AFP has kindly given permission for them to be reproduced on this website.Copyright

Management of benign breast conditions. Part 1 – painful breasts
Brennan M, Houssami N, French J. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:143-5.

Management of benign breast conditions. Part 2 – breast lumps and lesions
Brennan M, Houssami N, French J. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:253-5.

Management of benign breast conditions. Part 3 – other breast problems
Brennan M, Houssami N, French J. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:353-5

Breast imaging in general practice
Houssami N, Brennan M, French J, Fitzgerald P. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:467-73.

Making sense of breast pathology
Bilous M, Brennan M, French J, Boyages J. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:581-6.

Breast cancer – new and emerging technologies for diagnosis and management
Houssami N, French J, brennan M, Ahern V, Ung O. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:657-61.

Management of early breast cancer – the current approach
Brennan M, Wilcken N, French J, Ung O, Boyages J. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:755-60.

Breast cancer in young women
Brennan M, French J, Houssami N, Kirk J, Boyages J. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:851-5.

Ductal carcinoma in situ – management update
Stuart K, Boyages J, Brennan M, Ung O. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:949-54.

Locally advanced and inflammatory breast cancer
Ahern V, Brennan M, Ung O, Kefford R. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:1027-32.

An approach to the patient with a family history of breast cancer
Kirk J, Brennan M, Houssami N, Ung O. Aust Fam Physician 2006;35:43-7.

Breast cancer – guiding your patient through treatment
Brennan M, Black E, French J, Boyages J.  Aust Fam Physician 2006;35:117-20.

Life after breast cancer
Stuart K, Brennan M, French J, Houssami N, Boyages J.  Aust Fam Physician 2006;35:219-24.

Metastatic breast cancer
Stevanovic A, Lee P, Wilcken N.  Aust Fam Physician 2006;35:309-12.

Patient education:

What is a breast cyst?
The NSW Breast Cancer Institute. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:257.

Nipple discharge.
The NSW Breast Cancer Institute. Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:357.

Ductal carcinoma in situ
The NSW Breast Cancer Institute. . Aust Fam Physician 2005;34:955

Family history of breast cancer
NSW Breast Cancer Institute.  Aust Fam Physician 2006;35:49-50.

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