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Hot Topic! Breast Cancer

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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?

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Check these resources for an overview, key points, diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up and more.

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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

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