Almost all of the newspapers and their websites are leading with the news that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published draft guidelines recommending that women with a high risk of familial breast cancer should be offered preventative drug treatments.
The news is based on draft guidelines released by NICE for the care of women at risk of developing breast cancer that runs in families (familial breast cancer).
The new draft guidelines update the 2006 guidelines, and include new recommendations on genetic testing and monitoring of the disease.
New proposals are also included for the use of preventative therapies for people who don’t have breast cancer, but who are considered to be at high risk of developing the disease because of a strong family history of breast or ovarian cancer, and other specific cancers.
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