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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The B-Map-C investigated alterations to breast cancer management during the peak transmission period of the UK COVID-19 pandemic (March to May 2020). 64 UK breast units participated (n=3776) with 59% ...
Rajiv V Dave et al | British Journal of Cancer
25.03.2021 | Added: 25.03.2021
Classifications: Service Guidance
Keywords: COVID-19
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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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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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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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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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New benign guidelines on management of nipple discharge and fibroadenomata
Ms Karina Cox | ABS Conference 2019
13.05.2019 | Added: 13.05.2019
Classifications: Benign & Atypical Breast Disease
Keywords: Benign Breast Disease
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Debate: EBCTCG meta-analysis and current PMRT guidelines
Prof Ian Kunkler | ABS Conference 2019
13.05.2019 | Added: 13.05.2019
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Radiotherapy
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This guidance document on the management of nipple discharge has been produced by the ABS with the involvement of representatives from the British Society of Breast Radiologists and the National Coord...
Association of Breast Surgery, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2019 | Added: 01.03.2019
Classifications: Benign & Atypical Breast Disease
Keywords: Nipple Discharge
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A working group from ABS, Pathology Big 18 and Radiology Big 18 screening committees have produced a document on the recommended management of B3 lesions diagnosed in women within the Breast Screening...
NHS BSP Multidisciplinary Group | United Kingdom
01.01.2018 | Added: 01.08.2018
Classifications: Screening & Diagnosis
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QA Guidelines for Surgeons in Breast Cancer Screening
ABS have produced up to date guidance for surgeons involved in the care of women with cancers diagnosed within the NHS Breast Screening Programme
Association of Breast Surgery (ABS) | United Kingdom
01.01.2018 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Screening & Diagnosis
Keywords: NHS BSP Screening QA Guidelines
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Breast Imaging for Aesthetic Surgery
ABS, BAPRAS and the British Society of Breast Radiology have collaborated to produce these guidelines to help surgeons manage patients before and after aesthetic breast procedures. The guidance is bas...
British Society of Breast Radiology, Association of Breast Surgery and British Association of Plastic, Reconstruction and Aesthetic Surgeons | United Kingdom
01.01.2018 | Added: 01.11.2018
Classifications: Cosmetic Surgery
Keywords: Breast implants Cosmetic/ Aesthetic
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Prof Sarah Pinder | ABS Conference 2017
16.05.2017 | Added: 16.05.2017
Classifications: Benign & Atypical Breast Disease
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Advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment (CG81)
This NICE guideline was originally written in 2009 and was reviewed on 19/2/2025.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2017 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Secondary Breast Cancer
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ABS and BSBR imaging guidelines
Ms Mandana Pennick | ABS Conference 2016
16.05.2016 | Added: 16.05.2016
Classifications: Screening & Diagnosis
Keywords: Imaging
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NHSBSP: Clinical Guidance for Breast Cancer Screening Assessment
This document provides very clear guidance on the management of patients recalled for further assessment following Screening Mammography. There are very helpful indicators on how to manage B3 lesions....
Public Health England | United Kingdom
01.01.2016 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Screening & Diagnosis
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