Information Hub

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