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
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This systematic review and meta-analysis examined whether the timing of surgery post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) impacted overall survival (OS) and disease free survival (DFS). Five studies (inclu...
Carolyn Cullinane et al | European Journal of Surgical Oncology
09.02.2021 | Added: 09.02.2021
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy/ NACT Breast Surgery
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Personalised Breast Cancer treatment
ABS | 6th MDT meeting sessions
25.01.2021 | Added: 25.01.2021
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy/ NACT
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Endocrine treatment for breast cancer
ABS have produced an up to date guideline on endocrine therapy for early breast cancer patients
Association of Breast Surgery, UK
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.01.2021
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Endocrine therapy
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Guidance & Pathways for the Assessment of Children with Breast Symptoms
ABS has collaborated with colleagues from the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health to produce these guidelines for the assessment of children with...
Association of Breast Surgery, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.03.2021
Classifications: Service Guidance
Keywords: Paediatric Breast Patients
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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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On the 1st of November 2021, the MHRA issued up to date guidance on Breast Implant Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL). The guidance contains information for patients and health care ...
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.11.2021
Classifications: Cosmetic Surgery
Keywords: ALCL/ BIA ALCL Cosmetic Surgery Breast implants
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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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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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MHRA Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Expert Advisory Group
22.11.2020 | Added: 27.08.2025
Classifications: Cosmetic Surgery
Keywords: ALCL/ BIA ALCL
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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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ABS Webinar 2 - Beyond the wire and alternative breast localization techniques
ABS | Webinar
07.07.2020 | Added: 07.07.2020
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Localisation
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