http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Cancertype/Breast
References for the breast cancer information centre
The information in the breast cancer information centre is based on the Cancerbackup booklet, Understanding breast cancer, which has been produced in accordance with the following sources and guidelines:
* Improving Outcomes in Breast Cancer – Guidance on Cancer Services. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Aug 2002
* Guidelines for Surgeons in the Management of Symptomatic Breast Disease in the UK. Breast Surgeons Group of the British Association of Surgical Oncology. 1998.
* Breast Cancer in Women (publication 29). Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. Edinburgh. SIGN, 1998.
* Guidelines on the Non-surgical Management of Breast Cancer. The Royal College of Radiologists’ Clinical Oncology Information Network. Clinical Oncology, 1999, 11 : S90–S133
* The Classification and Care of Women at Risk of Familial Breast Cancer in Primary, Secondary Care and Tertiary Care. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). May 2004.
* Walker L et al, Psychosocial oncology services for women with breast cancer, Trends in Urology, Gynaecology and Sexual Health, Mar/Apr 2003.
* Anastrozole 1mg tablets (Arimidex). Scottish Medicines Consortium recommendation No 198/05. Sept 2005
* Guidelines on the Use of Taxanes for the Treatment of Breast Cancer. NICE. Sept 2001
* UK Clinical Guidelines for the use of Adjuvant Trastuzumab (Herceptin®) With or Following Chemotherapy in HER2-positive Early Breast Cancer. National Cancer Research Institute. December 2005.
* The Best Treatment: Guidelines for Women With Breast Cancer. Breakthrough breast cancer, April 2004.
* Pregnancy and Breast Cancer. Royal College of Obstetricians and gynaecologists, 2004.
Guidelines are constantly being updated and those noted above may have been revised since the booklet was produced. You can access up-to-date guidelines in the health professionals section of the website.
