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Access guidance, webcasts and publications with commentaries using the ABS Information Hub. Search by classification or using keywords.
To view the webcasts from previous ABS Conferences, events and webinars you must be an ABS member and be logged in using your membership username and password.
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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					Local regional surgery for Stage IV Disease
Dr Tari King | ABS Conference 2021
17.05.2021 | Added: 17.05.2021
Classifications: Secondary Breast Cancer
Keywords: Metastatic Breast Cancer
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					This cohort study used prospectively collected national data and included women diagnosed with primary invasive T1-2 N0-2 breast cancer. Patients underwent breast surgery in Sweden (2008-2017; n=48986...
Jana de Boniface et al | JAMA Oncology
05.05.2021 | Added: 05.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Breast Conserving Surgery Mastectomy Trials
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					Shave margins reduce positive margin rates
Elisabeth Dunpont et al | Annals of Surgical Surgery
01.05.2021 | Added: 01.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Surgical Margins Breast Conserving Surgery Trials
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					Trainee webinar 20 April 2021 - Benign breast diseases
Mammary Fold | Webinar
20.04.2021 | Added: 20.04.2021
Classifications: Benign & Atypical Breast Disease
Keywords: Benign Breast Disease Mammary Fold
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					This was a multicentre, prospective, observational cohort study of surgery or primary endocrine therapy in women aged over 70 years with operable breast cancer (n=3416 with 56 UK breast units who part...
J L M Morgan et al | British Journal of Surgery
24.03.2021 | Added: 24.03.2021
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Management of the older patient
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					Medical Technologies Guidance MTG54
NICE conclude that the VAC Veraflo Therapy system shows promise for treating acute infected or chronic wounds that are not healing. However there is not enough good-quality evidence to support the cas...
NICE, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.02.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Negative Pressure Wound Dressings
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					Plus sutures for preventing surgical site infection
Plus sutures (Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson Medical) are a range of absorbable sutures that are either impregnated or coated with the antimicrobial triclosan. NICE medical technologies guidance recommend...
NICE, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.07.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Sutures Surgical Site Infection/ SSI
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					The ABS and BAPRAS have collaborated to produce comprehensive guidance for the use of acellular dermal matrixes (ADM), biological meshes and synthetic meshes to assist breast reconstruction. The guida...
Association of Breast Surgery & British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.07.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
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					Lipomodelling Guidelines for Breast Surgery
ABS has worked with colleagues from BAPRAS and BAAPS to produce this comprehensive guidance for best practice in lipomodelling. The guidance has drawn on best available evidence following extensive re...
Association of Breast Surgery, British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (BAPRAS) & British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.04.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Lipomodelling/Lipofilling
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					Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction: Guidelines for Best Practice
Oncoplastic Surgery is now firmly established as a surgical strategy for many women with breast cancer and an extensive body of literature has been published on this topic. ABS has collaborated with B...
Association of Breast Surgery & British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (BAPRAS), UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.06.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Oncoplastic Surgery Breast Reconstruction
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					Updated recommendations regarding the management of older patients with breast cancer
The European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA) and The International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) have produced a useful document outlining the evidence based management of older p...
European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA) & International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) | Italy & France
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.08.2021
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Management of the older patient
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					Gynaecomastia Infographic for Primary Care
The Royal College of General Practitioners have endorsed the ABS infographic for the assessment and referral of gynaecomastia patients in Primary Care. ABS members are welcome to download this infogra...
Association of Breast Surgery | UK
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.02.2021
Classifications: Benign & Atypical Breast Disease
Keywords: Gynaecomastia
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					Do surgical margins matter after mastectomy? A systematic review
This systematic review aimed to determine if pathological margin proximity is associated with local or distant recurrence for patients with early invasive breast cancer or ductal carcinoma in situ who...
James Bundred et al | European Journal of Surgical Oncology
01.12.2020 | Added: 01.12.2020
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Surgical Margins
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					Trainees Webinar 5 - Oncoplastic Masterclass: Advances in Breast Conservation Surgery
Mammary Fold | Webinar
17.11.2020 | Added: 17.11.2020
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Mammary Fold Oncoplastic Surgery Breast Conserving Surgery
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					ABS Webinar 5 - Pre-pectoral reconstruction: How I do it
ABS | Webinar
06.10.2020 | Added: 06.10.2020
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Breast Reconstruction Prepectoral implant based breast reconstruction
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					5th ESO-ESMO international consensus guidelines for advanced breast cancer (ABC 5)
European School of Oncology & European Society for Medical Oncology
23.09.2020 | Added: 20.08.2025
Classifications: Secondary Breast Cancer
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					ABS Webinar 4 - Breast Implant-associated ALCL and Breast Implant Illness
ABS | Webinar
01.09.2020 | Added: 01.09.2020
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: ALCL/ BIA ALCL Cosmetic Surgery
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					ABS Webinar 3 - Personalised Breast Cancer Management
ABS | Webinar
04.08.2020 | Added: 04.08.2020
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
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