National Knowledge Week on Breast Cancer: 15-21 October 2007

The third Breast Cancer National Knowledge Week will be launched on 15th October and this update will feature over 40 topics including information about:

* Risk factors
* Screening for the over 70s
* Herceptin as adjuvant therapy
* HER2 testing
* Post mastectomy radiotherapy
* Breast reconstruction
* Sentinel node biopsy training programme
* Management of secondary (metastatic) breast cancer

The contents for National Knowledge Weeks are developed on the basis of ‘hot topics’ suggested by members of an Advisory Panel who provide high quality summaries which are linked to the latest published evidence. Summaries and resources are organised by topic area and links provided to the relevant guidance, systematic reviews and clinical trials. Full information about contributors is provided, together with a comprehensive resources page with quick links to information about statistics, epidemiology, databases, appraisal tools, clinical trial portals and breast cancer charities.

Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/cancer/

National Knowledge Week on Palliative Care in Children: 15-21 October 2007

The Palliative & Supportive Care and Child Health Specialist Libraries will be presenting the latest collection of evidence and supporting information in the National Knowledge Week for Palliative Care in Children. Links will be provided to relevant guidance and systematic reviews, together with information on developments and organisations working in this area. To coincide with this week a presentation will be made at the “Presenting Children’s Palliative Care in the Context of Change” conference held on 19th October.

Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/childhealth/ and http://www.library.nhs.uk/palliative/

What has happened to the link to Bandolier?

The link to Bandolier has been removed temporarily from the National Library for Health home page and the Evidence based reviews hub page, while some work is done to crawl the Bandolier site, so that it can be re-instated as a searchable collection from the Evidence based reviews hub page. The link had to be removed temporarily because the metadata we had for Bandolier wasn’t current and complete. This work to crawl the Bandolier site is underway, and the link to Bandolier is set to reappear on the NLH site later this month, with Release 3.1 (currently scheduled for 29 October 2007).