We have put together some current information around breast cancer as it is breast cancer awareness month.
FIND THE GUIDELINES
- NICE: Suspected cancer: recognition and referral (NG12 / June 2015)
- NICE: Familial breast cancer classification, care and managing breast cancer and related risks in people with a family history of breast cancer (CG164/ June 2013):
- NICE: Advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment (CG81 / Feb 2009)
- NICE: Early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment (CG80 / Feb 2009)
SEARCH https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance
CKS: Breast cancer – recognition and referral
SEARCH: http://cks.nice.org.uk
IN THE HEADLINES
What do you do when your patient says “the BBC news says there is no link between breast cancer and night shifts. Is that true, because I remember the newspapers saying that I would get breast cancer if I worked night shifts, so I gave up”
CHECK OUT: www.nhs.uk/News/
LATEST COCHRANE REVIEW
Follow-up strategies for women treated for early breast cancer
Review question: Whether an intensive follow-up decreases the number of recurrences or deaths and affects health-related quality of life (HRQoL) compared with a less intensive follow-up and whether a follow-up offered by specialists is different from that performed by family physicians.
Key results: This review of trials found that follow-up programs based on a regular physical examination and a yearly mammogram appear to be as effective as the more intensive approaches and to have similar impact on HRQoL. No significant differences were found between follow-up performed by specialists or family physicians, regularly or on demand. These results should be interpreted with caution bearing in mind that these studies were conducted almost two decades ago; additional trials incorporating new biological knowledge and improved imaging technologies are needed.
May 2016
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001768.pub3/full
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