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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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Mastitis and Mammary Abscess Management Audit (MAMMA) in the UK and Ireland
MAMMA describes the current practice in management of mastitis and breast abscess in UK and Ireland, with a specific focus on the rate of surgical intervention. From 69 participating hospitals, 1312 p...
Alona Courtney et al | British Journal of Surgery
31.10.2023 | Added: 31.10.2023
Classifications: Benign & Atypical Breast Disease
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This prospective multicentre cohort study aimed to determine surgical decision-making in the breast and axilla, as well as pathological complete response (pCR) rate in patients undergoing neoadjuvant ...
Hiba Fatayer et al | British Journal of Surgery
09.09.2022 | Added: 09.09.2022
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy/ NACT Early Breast Cancer Trials
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This randomised controlled trial evaluated whether a single bolus dose of 1.2g intravenous Augmentin reduced wound infection at 30 days after breast cancer surgery. 438 patients received prophylactic ...
Sheila Stallard et al | British Journal of Surgery
06.09.2022 | Added: 06.09.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Antibiotic Prophylaxis Trials Breast Surgery
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This study aimed to determine potential association between postoperative complications and survival in breast cancer patients as postoperative complications may activate prometastatic pathways. Patie...
Jana de Boniface et al | British Journal of Surgery
05.08.2022 | Added: 05.08.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Breast Surgery Complications Trials
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Significant concerns have been raised about the impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of NHS cancer service. This report compares breast cancer service referral and treatment activity in 2020 and 2021, c...
Toral Gathani et al | British Journal of Surgery
14.12.2021 | Added: 14.12.2021
Classifications: Screening & Diagnosis
Keywords: COVID-19
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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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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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This study sought to identify factors predictive of distant metastatic disease at presentation to enable appropriate selection of patients for pretreatment CT. A total of 1377 patients with newly diag...
N Roszkowski et al | British Journal of Surgery
14.03.2021 | Added: 14.03.2021
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy/ NACT
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This study examines whether biological subtype in patients diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) influences their outcome using a national cancer database. Amongst 4068 patients diagnosed wi...
A.R. Kupstas et al | British Journal of Surgery
14.02.2020 | Added: 14.02.2020
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Inflammatory Breast Cancer
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