Hot Flush Questionaire
The Working Party gauged current clinical practice for hot flushes in cancer with a short questionnaire (HF Survey).
Survey of UK Breast Intergroup members on current treatment of hot flushes
HF Survey.pdf
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HF Survey.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [259.7 KB]
This was circulated to the UK Breast Intergroup mailing list (185 responses from about 800 breast cancer health professionals nurses, oncologists, surgeons etc)
Briefly, a small number of people were prescribing HRT or Progesterone (Megestrol), more Clonidine and Gabapentine and many selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). In addition, available treatments (both pharmacological and non-pharmacological) varied across the UK. The results of theis questionaire are also described in the Clinical Oncology Editorial
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