Breast Cancer in Four Continents: Europe, Asia, North and South America. A Report of a Personal Training Experience

The current paper presents the author's reports on her training courses in departments of breast surgery at the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; Careggi University, Florence, Italy; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Cancer Institute of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan and Ivo Pitanguy Clinic, Santa Casa da Misericordia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 2002-2008. A special emphasis is laid upon lifestyle, breast cancer incidence, imaging diagnostics, breast conserving therapy-mastectomy ratio, breast reconstruction, sentinel node biopsy and gene profiling in these populations.