Familial breast cancer - classification and care of people at risk of familial breast cancer and management of breast cancer and related risks in people with a family history of breast cancer : full guideline / developed for NICE by the National Collaborating Centre for Cancer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Collaborating Centre for Cancer (Great Britain), issuing body.

Series:

Clinical guideline (National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Great Britain)).

NCBI Bookshelf.

Clinical guideline

NCBI Bookshelf

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome--epidemiology.

Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome--therapy.

Risk Assessment.

Protective Factors.

Great Britain--Epidemiology.

Great Britain.

Medical Subjects:

Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome--epidemiology.

Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome--therapy.

Risk Assessment.

Protective Factors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF file (253 pages)) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[Cardiff] : National Collaborating Centre for Cancer, June 2013.

Summary:

New and updated recommendations have been included on genetic testing thresholds, surveillance and risk reduction and treatment strategies for people without breast cancer who are at increased risk because of a family history of breast, ovarian or a related cancer. New recommendations have been included on genetic testing thresholds, subsequent surveillance and risk-reduction and treatment strategies for people with a diagnosis of breast cancer and a family history of breast, ovarian or a related cancer.

Notes:

"Updates and replaces NICE clinical guideline 14 (published May 2004) and NICE clinical guideline 41 (published July 2006)--PDF p. 2.

Description based on version viewed February 25, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.