Open AccessBREAST CANCER AND ITS IMPACT IN SOCIETY AT A GLANCE
Author(s) -
G Dimitrov,
Feodor Odzhakov,
George Baytchev
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of surgery and medicine/international journal of surgery and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2367-7414
pISSN - 2367-699X
DOI - 10.5455/ijsm.188450
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , oncology , cancer , gynecology
The first in a series of reviews discusses the literature published so far relating to breast cancer including: epidemiology of the disease, economic impact, pathology of breast cancer as it remains the most common cancer diagnosed in women, the main molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis accepted today, the invasion & metastasis cascade and the concerning relationship between benign and malignant disease