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Metastatic spinal cord compression (CG75) |
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metastatic spinal cord compression
Fast, easy summary view of NICE guidance on 'metastatic spinal cord compression'
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Metastatic spinal cord compression: diagnosis and management of adults at risk of and with metastatic spinal cord compression
The advice in the NICE guideline covers:
- adults who have, or are at risk of developing, metastatic spinal cord compression because they have cancer elsewhere in their body that has spread to their spine
It does not specifically look at:
- children, or adults whose cancer started in the spine or who have compression of the spinal cord that is not caused by cancer
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Other information
- CG75 Metastatic spinal cord compression: evidence review
- CG75 Metastatic spinal cord compression: NICE guideline (web format)
NICE Pathways
This guidance has been incorporated into the following NICE Pathways, along with other related guidance and products.
Visit the NICE Pathway: metastatic spinal cord compression
How this guidance was produced
Background information
This page was last updated: 03 February 2012
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Guideline formats
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Implementation tools and resources
- Audit support
- Costing report
- Costing template
- Slide set
- Metastatic spinal cord compression: local patient information template
- Metastatic spinal cord compression: implementation advice
See this guidance in practice
Patient
The summary of the key recommendations in the guidance written for patients, carers and those with little medical knowledge and may be used in local patient information leaflets.
Quick Reference Guide
The quick reference guide presents recommendations for health professionals
NICE Guideline
The published NICE clinical guideline, contains the recommendations for health professionals and NHS bodies.
Full Guideline
The published full clinical guideline for specialists with background, evidence, recommendations and methods used.

