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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Complications and oncological safety of robotic vs. Open nipple sparring mastectomy- meta-analysis
Dr Ashrafun Nessa | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Nipple sparing
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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 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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Nur Amalina Che Bakri | ABS Conference 2022
16.05.2022 | Added: 16.05.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Flaps Breast Reconstruction
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No occult malignancy identified in 1130 transmale gender-affirming mastectomy specimens
Brogan Rudge | ABS Conference 2022
16.05.2022 | Added: 16.05.2022
Classifications: Other
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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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The Pre-bra study has recently been published by Kate Harvey et al in the BJS. Consecutive patients electing to undergo immediate PPBR at participating UK centres between July 2019 and December 2020 w...
Kate L Harvey et al | National Library of Medicine
16.05.2022 | Added: 16.05.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Prepectoral implant based breast reconstruction Trials
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Thiruchelvam et al have recently reported on their study, PRADA, to explore the feasibility of preoperative radiotherapy followed by skin-sparing mastectomy and deep inferior epigastric perforator (DI...
Paul T R Thiruchelvam et al | The Lancet Oncology
07.04.2022 | Added: 07.04.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Flaps Radiotherapy Breast Reconstruction
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Comparing Nipple-sparing Mastectomy to Secondary Nipple Reconstruction: A multi-institutional study
This secondary analysis of the Mastectomy Reconstruction Outcomes Consortium study aims to compare Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) of women who underwent immediate implant-based breast reconstruction...
Katherine B. Santosa et al | Annals of Surgical Surgery
01.08.2021 | Added: 01.08.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Nipple sparing Breast Reconstruction
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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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Debate - when breast conservation is feasible, mastectomy should still be an option for women
ABS | ABS Conference 2021
17.05.2021 | Added: 17.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Breast Conserving Surgery Oncoplastic Surgery Mastectomy
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ABS | ABS Conference 2021
17.05.2021 | Added: 17.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Skin Sparing Mastectomy Oncoplastic Surgery
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Contralateral mastectomy in the non high risk patient
ABS | ABS Conference 2021
17.05.2021 | Added: 17.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Contralateral Mastectomy
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This cohort study used prospectively collected national data and included women diagnosed with primary invasive T1-2 N0-2 breast cancer. Patients underwent breast surgery in Sweden (2008-2017; n=48986...
Jana de Boniface et al | JAMA Oncology
05.05.2021 | Added: 05.05.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Breast Conserving Surgery Mastectomy Trials
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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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Technical aspects of nipple sparing mastectomy with different shaped breasts
Mr Gerald Gui | ABS Conference 2019
13.05.2019 | Added: 13.05.2019
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Nipple sparing Oncoplastic Surgery
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This useful document describes the evidence base for a list of recommendations around the technical aspects of prepectoral implant based breast reconstruction. Issues such as post-mastectomy reconstru...
Consensus statement from USA, UK and European Breast Surgeons and Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons | United Kingdom
01.01.2019 | Added: 01.06.2019
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
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The role of pectoral nerve (Pecs) blocks in a day case mastectomy service
Ashleigh Bell | ABS Conference 2018
18.06.2018 | Added: 18.06.2018
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Analgesia Nerve Blocks
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