NICE issues draft guideline on familial breast cancer for consultation

Source: NICE Area: News The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published a draft guideline on the management of familial breast cancer, for consultation.    The draft guideline makes provisional recommendations on issues including - when to offer genetic testing, what surveillance strategies should and should not be offered, and the use of tamoxifen or raloxifene  as treatments to prevent breast cancer.   The closing date for comments is 25 February 2013.   An embargoed version of the final guideline will be available to stakeholder organisations that comment during this consultation. This embargoed version will be released two weeks before the official publication, and will be subject to the signing of a confidentiality form.
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