Canadian Breast Cancer Initiative
Questions and answers
on breast cancer
A guide for women and their physicians
Based on The Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines
for the Care and Treatment of Breast Cancer
The Steering Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment
of Breast Cancer
Supplement to CMAJ 1998;158(3 suppl)
Health Canada · Canadian Medical Association
Santé Canada · Association médicale canadienne
© 1998 Canadian Medical Association
ISBN 0-920169-21-X
Copies of this document can be obtained without charge from your local Cancer Society or from Publications, Health Canada, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON, Canada K1A 0K9. Tel 613 954-5995;
fax 613 941-5366.
[Suggested citation: Questions and answers on breast cancer. A guide for women and their physicians. Based on Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast Cancer: a Canadian Consensus Document. The Steering Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast Cancer. (M. McGregor, editor). Ottawa: Canadian Medical Association, 1998]
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Acknowledgements
The skilful assistance of Ms. Sheila Penney of Infolink Consultants in the writing of this version of the guidelines and the contribution of the numerous reviewers who have given invaluable suggestions are acknowledged with gratitude by the Steering Committee.
