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Breast Cancer (PDQ®): Treatment

Summary


TITLE

Breast Cancer (PDQ®): Treatment

TOOL AVAILABILITY

This tool is available at:

http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/breast/patient

DESCRIPTION

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) PDQ database contains summaries of the latest published information on cancer prevention, detection, genetics, treatment, supportive care, and complementary and alternative medicine. This summary provides information to patients about breast cancer treatment.

TOOL CATEGORY

Education
Treatment

AUDIENCE

Patients/Consumers

Key Features

PATIENTS/CONSUMERS

Topics addressed include:

  • General Information About Breast Cancer
  • Stages of Breast Cancer
  • Inflammatory Breast Cancer
  • Recurrent Breast Cancer
  • Treatment Option Overview
  • Treatment Options by Stage
  • Treatment Options for Inflammatory Breast Cancer
  • Treatment Options for Recurrent Breast Cancer

Target Population

TARGET POPULATION AGE

Unspecified

ASSOCIATION WITH VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Women

Institute of Medicine - National Health Care Quality Report Categories

IOM CARE NEED

End of Life Care
Getting Better
Living with Illness

IOM DOMAIN

Effectiveness
Patient-centeredness

IOM PRIORITY AREA

Self-management/health literacy (cross-cutting)

Identifying Information

SPONSOR

National Cancer Institute - Federal Government Agency [U.S.]

DEVELOPER

National Cancer Institute - Federal Government Agency [U.S.]

TOOL FORMAT

Web site

RELATED RESOURCES

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RELEASE DATE

2004 May

QUALITYTOOLS STATUS

This QualityTools summary was completed by ECRI on October 13, 2004.