The BJC is owned by Cancer Research UK, a charity dedicated to understanding the causes, prevention and treatment of cancer and to making sure that the best new treatments reach patients in the clinic as quickly as possible. The journal reflects these aims. It was founded more than fifty years ago and, from the start, its far-sighted mission was to encourage communicat
Once the diagnosis of breast cancer is made, the physician must stage the disease based on physical findings and special preoperative studies, since staging guides treatment.
At the present rate of incidence, one of every 9 American women will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. 43.000 women die each year of the disease.
ACOG is a nonprofit organization of women's health care physicians advocating highest standards of practice, continuing member education and public awareness of women's health care issues.