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Access guidance, webcasts and publications with commentaries using the ABS Information Hub. Search by classification or using keywords.
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Use this guidance key to help search the ABS Information Hub more effectively. Keywords are grouped under nine main themes that reflect key areas of clinical practice in breast care. By using these keywords to guide your search, you can quickly locate relevant guidelines, webcasts, publications and toolkits tailored to specific topics of interest.
Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
- Adjuvant chemotherapy treatment guidelines
 - Bisphosphonates
 - Endocrine therapy
 - Neoadjuvant therapy
 - Radiotherapy
 - Tumour profiling
 
Benign & Atypical Breast Disease
- Fibroadenoma management
 - Gynaecomastia
 - Management of nipple discharge
 
Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
- Antibiotic Prophylaxis
 - Axilla
 - Biological & synthetic mesh assisted breast reconstruction
 - Implant loss/ removal
 - Lipomodelling
 - Negative pressure wound dressings
 - Oncoplastic breast reconstruction
 - Prepectoral implant-based breast reconstruction
 - Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
 - Surgical margins
 - Surgical site infections
 - Surgical techniques
 - Sutures
 - Venous thromboembolism
 - Wound drains
 
Breast Cancer Risk
- Contralateral mastectomy
 - Management of high risk patients
 - Risk reducing surgery
 
Breast Cancer Treatment
- Advanced breast cancer
 - Early and locally advanced breast cancer
 - Management of the older patient
 - Management of the younger patient
 - Pregnancy associated breast cancer
 
Cosmetic Surgery
- BIA ALCL
 - Breast imaging before/ after aesthetic surgery
 
Post Treatment Surveillance & Care
- Follow up
 - Hormone replacement therapy
 - Lymphoedema
 - Management of oestrogen deficiency symptoms
 - Surveillance mammography
 
Screening & Diagnosis
- B3 lesions
 - Imaging guidance
 - QA guidelines
 - Screening assessment
 - Symptomatic diagnostic guidance
 
Service Guidance
- Breast cancer management quality standards
 - Breast services standards
 - Commissioning
 - Consent
 - COVID 19 service guidance
 - Documentation
 - MDT Meetings
 - Outcomes in breast cancer
 - Patient communication
 - Paediatric breast patients
 
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					VTE prophylaxis in breast surgery: Clinical audit of over 5000 patients evaluating a local protocol
Ryo Yoshimura | ABS Conference 2022
16.05.2022 | Added: 16.05.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: VTE
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					The Pre-bra study has recently been published by Kate Harvey et al in the BJS. Consecutive patients electing to undergo immediate PPBR at participating UK centres between July 2019 and December 2020 w...
Kate L Harvey et al | National Library of Medicine
16.05.2022 | Added: 16.05.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Prepectoral implant based breast reconstruction Trials
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					James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership: Breast Cancer Surgery Research
In 2022 the ABS completed a priority setting partnership exercise with the James Lind Alliance to identify the Top 10 research priorities in breast cancer surgery
James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership: Breast Cancer Surgery Research | Association of Breast Surgery
01.05.2022 | Added: 01.05.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Breast Surgery Trials Research
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					Simplified Lymphatic Microsurgical Preventing Healing Approach (SLYMPHA) is a surgical procedure which aims to decrease lymphoedema rates in patients receiving axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). T...
Tolga Ozmen et al | European Journal of Surgical Oncology
30.04.2022 | Added: 30.04.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Axilla Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy/ SLNB Lymphoedema
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					Thiruchelvam et al have recently reported on their study, PRADA, to explore the feasibility of preoperative radiotherapy followed by skin-sparing mastectomy and deep inferior epigastric perforator (DI...
Paul T R Thiruchelvam et al | The Lancet Oncology
07.04.2022 | Added: 07.04.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Flaps Radiotherapy Breast Reconstruction
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					This national practice questionnaire (NPQ) was designed to establish the current practice of UK breast multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) regarding breast cancer locoregional recurrence (LRR) management. ...
Jenna L Morgan | National Library of Medicine
04.04.2022 | Added: 04.04.2022
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Local recurrence Trials
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					This IDEAL stage 2a/2b platform cohort study examined the effectiveness localisation and removal of the index lesion using wires vs. magnetic seeds. From 35 units, 2300 patients were recruited (Aug 20...
Rajiv V Dave et al | National Library of Medicine
24.02.2022 | Added: 24.02.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Localisation
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					This cohort study aimed to determine the outcomes of women who had no surgery for screen-detected DCIS. English breast screening databases were utilised to identify patients diagnosed with DCIS withou...
Anthony J Maxwell et al | National Library of Medicine
04.01.2022 | Added: 04.01.2022
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
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					Mammary Fold | Webinar
19.10.2021 | Added: 19.10.2021
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Management of the older patient Audit
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					Comparing Nipple-sparing Mastectomy to Secondary Nipple Reconstruction: A multi-institutional study
This secondary analysis of the Mastectomy Reconstruction Outcomes Consortium study aims to compare Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) of women who underwent immediate implant-based breast reconstruction...
Katherine B. Santosa et al | Annals of Surgical Surgery
01.08.2021 | Added: 01.08.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Nipple sparing Breast Reconstruction
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					This pooled analysis of 2310 patients from four neoadjuvant clinical trials examined survival and treatment response in patients with HER2-low-positive (immunohistochemistry 1+ or 2+/in-situ hybridisa...
Prof Carsten Denkert et al | The Lancet Oncology
09.07.2021 | Added: 09.07.2021
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: HER2 Positive
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					This study aimed to identify characteristics that are associated with negative pathological node (ypN0) in patients with clinically node-negative (cN0) breast cancer treated with NACT. This cohort stu...
M E M van der Noordaa et al | British Journal of Surgery
06.06.2021 | Added: 06.06.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Axilla Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy/ SLNB Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy/ NACT
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					This meta-analysis, including 14 studies (n=19819), evaluates the safety of breast conserving surgery (BCS) in triple negative breast cancer. 9828 patients underwent BCS (49.6%) and 9991 patients (50....
A Fancellu et al | British Journal of Surgery
31.05.2021 | Added: 31.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Breast Conserving Surgery Mastectomy Triple Negative Breast Cancer
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					ABS MDT Meeting: DCIS (Session 1)
ABS | MDT meeting 2023
25.05.2021 | Added: 25.01.2021
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: DCIS
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					Debate - when breast conservation is feasible, mastectomy should still be an option for women
ABS | ABS Conference 2021
17.05.2021 | Added: 17.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Breast Conserving Surgery Oncoplastic Surgery Mastectomy
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					ABS | ABS Conference 2021
17.05.2021 | Added: 17.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Skin Sparing Mastectomy Oncoplastic Surgery
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					Contralateral mastectomy in the non high risk patient
ABS | ABS Conference 2021
17.05.2021 | Added: 17.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Contralateral Mastectomy
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					Optimal Breast Cancer Care in the over 70s
ABS | ABS Conference 2021
17.05.2021 | Added: 17.05.2021
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Management of the older patient
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