Breast Cancer - National Knowledge Week 2008

 

Chemotherapy Drugs  Mammogram Female Breast Tumour

 

Resources

STATISTICS, EPIDEMIOLOGY and DEMOGRAPHICS
1. Breakthrough Breast Cancer - Statistics. [view]
2. Breakthrough Breast Cancer - Lifetime risk. [view]
3. Breast Cancer Care - Breast cancer risk factors. [view]
4. National Statistics Online - Breast cancer incidence and mortality. [view]
5. Cancer Research UK - Incidence. [view]
6. Cancer Research UK - Survival. [view]
7. Cancer Research UK - Mortality. [view]
8. Cancer Research UK - Breast cancer key facts. [view]

GUIDELINES
- sources and appraisal tools
1. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) - Cancer service guidance and guidelines. [view]
2. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) - Technology appraisals. [view]
3. Guidelines Finder - UK Database of clinical guidelines. [view]
4. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) - Clinical guidelines. [view]
5. AGREE Collaboration - AGREE Instrument (guideline appraisal tool). [view]

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW - databases and appraisal tools
1. Cochrane Library - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. [view]
2. Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) - DARE. [view]
3. National Co-ordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA) - HTA database. [view]
4. PubMED - Breast cancer systematic reviews. [view]
5. Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Worksheet for systematic reviews of therapy. [view]

CLINICAL TRIALS - databases, overviews and appraisal tools
1. PubMed - Breast cancer RCTs. [view]
2. Cancerbackup and Macmillan cancer support - Breast cancer trials database. [view]
3. CancerHelp UK - Trials database. [view]
4. Current Controlled Trials - Trials database. [view]
5. Cancerbackup and Macmillan cancer support - Research - clinical trials. [view]
6. CancerHelp UK - Understanding clinical trials. [view]
7. Breakthrough Breast Cancer - Clinical trials. [view]
8. Breast Cancer Care - Clinical trials. [view]
9. Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Critical appraisal worksheet for therapy. [view]

PATIENT INFORMATION - websites and appraisal tools
1. Breakthrough Breast Cancer - Website. [view]
2. Breast Cancer Care - Website. [view]
3. Cancerbackup and Macmillan cancer support - Website. [view]
4. CancerHelp UK - Website. [view]
5. Cancer Research UK - Website. [view] 
6. CSCS'IP - National Patient Information Pathways - Website. [view]
7. DIPEX Personal experiences of illness and health- Website. [view]
8. Macmillan Cancer Support - Website. [view]
9. mihealth - [view]
10. Minervation LIDA - Validation tool for health websites. [view]
11. NHS Choices - Your health your choices - Website. [view]
12. Oxford Cancer Information (OCI) [view]
13. Royal College of Surgeons of England - Patient information. [view]

ORGANISATIONS
1. NHS Improvement Cancer - [Website]
2. National Library for Health (NLH) - [Website]