NICE Guidelines On Breast Cancer Follow-Up Need Urgent Revision, UK

The NICE guidelines on follow-up for breast cancer patients need urgent revision, warn experts in this week’s BMJ.More than 1.2 million women and men worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer each year and it is now recognised as a chronic disease that can recur even after 20 -30 years. Survival continues to improve, so new cancers are now more common in many patients than recurrence because the treatments of the first cancer are so effective.

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Filed under: Breast Cancer on January 29th, 2008