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Specific patient information for some national clinical guidelines is available.
The NCEC National Clinical Guideline No. 7 Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment of Patients with Breast Cancer, published in 2015, has been updated by the HSE National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP). Please see explanatory note in the following link for more information:
The NCEC National Clinical Guideline No. 8 Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment of Patients with Prostate Cancer, published in 2015, has been updated by the HSE National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP).
Update 13th May 2022
The National Clinical Guideline No. 13 Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment of Patients with Gestational Trophoblastic Disease, published in 2015, is retired from the suite of NCEC National Clinical Guidelines and as such is no longer available on this webpage.
For more information see here