References for the secondary breast cancer information centre

The information in the secondary breast cancer information section is based on the Macmillan Cancer Support booklet, Understanding secondary breast cancer.

The references for the booklet are:

• Advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment. 2009. National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).
• The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disease. 4th edition. 2009. Saunders, Bland and Copeland.
• Management of Breast Cancer in Women. Publication 29. 2006. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN).
• Aromatase inhibitors for treatment of advanced breast cancer in menopausal women. Issue 1. 2007. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
• Guidelines for the management of symptomatic breast disease. 2005. British Association of Surgical Oncologists.

Guidelines are constantly being updated and those noted above may have been revised since this information was produced. For more information please see our general bibliography|.