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October 11, 2009
Annual Evidence Update on Breast Cancer - 12 October 2009
Annual Evidence Update on Breast Cancer (NHS Evidence - cancer)
www.library.nhs.uk/cancer
This is the fifth Annual Evidence Update (AEU) on Breast Cancer. It presents the results of a search for new guidance and systematic reviews that have appeared since October 2008. This Update provides commentaries from the Breast Cancer Advisory Panel, which comprises leading health professionals in breast cancer care.
Examples of topic areas covered include:
- Sentinel node identification and classification after neoadjuvant chemotherapy-a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of ductal carcinoma in situ: what is its clinical application?
- Breast cancer presentation and survival in relation to ethnicity and social deprivation
- Fertility Related Concerns of Women with Breast Cancer
- Management of hot flushes for women with treatment-induced menopause
The AEU will bring together significant new evidence, links to patient information and external resources in order to fully cover the last twelve months of clinical and research-based activity in breast cancer.
Background to the NHS Evidence Specialist Collections and Annual Evidence Updates
The specialist collections have been developed to identify and meet the information needs of particular communities of practice. They are web-based collections containing clinical and non-clinical information on the major health priority areas. Each specialist collection identifies and provides access to quality assessed information of relevance to the community that it serves. An aspect of this involves the production of Annual Evidence Updates, which aim to highlight the best current evidence for selected healthcare topics. Annual Evidence Updates consist of the good quality evidence from a search of research evidence on a particular topic over a 12 month period, plus user-friendly summaries written by relevant experts, and links to guidelines, secondary research and primary research, if applicable. All information included in Annual Evidence Updates has been subject to rigorous selection criteria.
Posted by S.Austin at October 11, 2009 6:04 PM