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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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In 2024, European guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and follow up of lesions with uncertain malignant potential (B3 lesions) were published in the EJSO. The document gives an up to date overview...
EUSOMA, EUSOBI, ESP (BWG) & ESSO | Italy
01.01.2023 | Added: 01.08.2024
Classifications: Screening & Diagnosis
Keywords: B3
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01.02.2025 | Added: 20.08.2025
Classifications: Post Treatment Surveillance & Care
Keywords: Lymphoedema
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The COMET Randomized Clinical Trial aimed to identify patients with DCIS with a low-risk of progression to invasive malignancy, who could avoid surgery; addressing concerns about overdiagnosis and tre...
E. Shelley Hwang, Terry Hyslop, Thomas Lynch, et al.
12.12.2024 | Added: 04.06.2025
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: DCIS Endocrine therapy
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Assessing the long term risk of invasive breast cancer after pre-invasive disease
Increased risk lasts for at least 25 years after diagnosis, suggesting longer term monitoring is neededA University of Oxford study published by The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has found that women ...
Gurdeep S Mannu et al | British medical Journal
24.04.2024 | Added: 24.04.2024
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Invasive Breast Cancer
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Consensus statement: the benefits and risks of HRT before and after a breast cancer diagnosis
Questions regarding the risk/ benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) are common in breast clinics. The British Menopause Society (BMS) have produced a clear and helpful document which summarise...
British Menopause Society
01.03.2024 | Added: 20.08.2025
Classifications: Post Treatment Surveillance & Care
Keywords: Hormone Replacement Therapy/ HRT Menopause
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Early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis & management
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommendations for further surgery after breast-conserving surgery for invasive disease.
NICE, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2024 | Added: 01.01.2024
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery Post Treatment Surveillance & Care
Keywords: Surgical Margins Lymphoedema Bisphosphonates
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This study evaluates the long term risk of invasive breast cancer and breast cancer related death following non-screen detected DCIS diagnosis. This risk was compared to the general population and to ...
Gurdeep S Mannu et al | British medical Journal
16.11.2023 | Added: 16.11.2023
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: DCIS Symptomatic Invasive Breast Cancer
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Update on the diagnosis and management of Phyllodes Tumours: Benign, borderline and malignant
n/a | Webinar
09.11.2023 | Added: 09.11.2023
Classifications: Benign & Atypical Breast Disease
Keywords: Phyllodes
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Dr Eddie Gibson | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: ALCL/ BIA ALCL Cosmetic Surgery
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Targeted axillary dissection in low volume nodal disease at diagnosis: UK practice survey (Tadpole)
Miss Katherine Fairhurst | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
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Trends in the diagnosis and management of breast cancer across the west of Scotland 2010-2018
Miss Louise Magill | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Screening & Diagnosis
Keywords: Diagnosis
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Age and sex can predict cancer risk in people referred with breast symptoms
Over the last decade, more than 5 million patients were referred to secondary care with breast symptoms. In 2021-22, 40% of referred patients waited longer than the recommended 14 days for clinic asse...
Toral Gathani et al | British medical Journal
26.04.2023 | Added: 26.04.2023
Classifications: Breast Cancer Risk
Keywords: High risk factors
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This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer diagnostic services using publicly available data sources (Cancer Waiting Time data / NHSBSP annual report / COVID-19 Rapid Can...
Toral Gathani et al | British Journal of Cancer
12.11.2022 | Added: 12.11.2022
Classifications: Screening & Diagnosis
Keywords: Symptomatic COVID-19
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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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In 2022 NICE published an exceptional review to examine any impact on NICE's guideline on early and locally advanced breast cancer of published evidence on the indications for using adjuvant bisphosph...
NICE
01.07.2022 | Added: 20.08.2025
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Bisphosphonates
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Diagnosis and Surgery for women with PABC
Ashu Gandhi | ABS Conference 2022
16.05.2022 | Added: 16.05.2022
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer/ PABC
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Katie Miller | ABS Conference 2022
16.05.2022 | Added: 16.05.2022
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Radiotherapy
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This comprehensive, evidence based consensus statement by the British Menopause Society provides an overview of the management of women experiencing oestrogen deficiency symptoms and arthralgia follow...
British Menopause Society
01.03.2022 | Added: 20.08.2025
Classifications: Post Treatment Surveillance & Care
Keywords: Menopause Hormone Replacement Therapy/ HRT
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