The Guardian reports that some women at higher risk of
developing breast cancer will be offered a drug to reduce that risk: Drug
that can halve breast cancer risk offered to 289,000 women in England. How
can you support breast cancer patients? What’s the best evidence?
Check these resources for an overview, key points,
diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up and more.
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resources]
Oxford Medicine
Online – Chapter
22 Breast Cancer in Oxford Handbook of Cancer Nursing
BMJ Best Practice
– Breast Cancer in Situ
Clinical Key (available to UHNM only) – Breast
Cancer in Females
Clinical Knowledge Summaries – Breast
cancer - recognition and referral
Cochrane Library clinical answers – Can weight
loss interventions improve outcomes for overweight and obese breast cancer
survivors?
Royal Marsden Manual Online – Chapter 27:
Living with and beyond cancer
Patient Information
- Breast cancer: DCIS (very early breast cancer) in women (BMJ Best Practice]
- Breast cancer: routine screening (mammography) [BMJ Best Practice]
- Breast Cancer Survivor Follow-up [Clinical Key]
Calculators
- Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk After Mastectomy (simple)
- Cancer and Aging Research Group-Breast Cancer (CARG-BC) score for older adults
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