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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Shelley Potter | ABS Conference 2024
13.05.2024 | Added: 29.07.2024
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Effect of art therapy on breast cancer patients' quality of life: Literature review
Riya Thomas | ABS Conference 2024
13.05.2024 | Added: 29.07.2024
Classifications: Post Treatment Surveillance & Care
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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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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 systemic review identified primary research studies (2000-2022) which evaluated clinical or patient-reported outcomes for women who underwent contralateral mastectomy without reconstruction after...
Cora Griffin et al | Annals of Surgical Oncology
25.09.2023 | Added: 25.09.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Contralateral mastectomy
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Oreste Davide Gentilini et al | JAMA Oncology
21.09.2023 | Added: 21.09.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy/ SLNB Trials Axilla
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What constitutes a good consultation when informing patients about breast reconstruction?
Ms Samantha Sloan | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
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Re-excision rates based on data from the National Audit of Breast Cancer in Older Patients
Professor Kieran Horgan | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
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Radiotherapy toxicity in patients undergoing oncoplastic breast surgery - the surgeons' perspective
Mr Tim Rattay | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Breast Reconstruction Radiotherapy
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Do all patients with invasive breast cancer need an axillary USS?
Professor Michael Douek | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Axilla Ultrasound
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Comparison study of obese and non-obese patients undergoing implant reconstruction with ADM
Mr John Mathew | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Acellular Dermal Matrix/ ADM
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Are patients being appropriately consented for implant- based breast reconstruction (IBR)?
Miss Lisa Sheehan | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Implant based breast reconstruction
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ALDH1 and CD44 serve as prognostic markers in patients with breast cancer
Professor Diptendra Kumar Sarkar | ABS Conference 2023
15.05.2023 | Added: 15.05.2023
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Prognostic Markers
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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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MonarchE is an open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial which recruited high risk hormone receptor positive, HER2 receptor negative, node-positive breast cancer patients (n=5637). Patients were randomise...
Prof Stephen R D Johnston, MD et al | The Lancet Oncology
06.12.2022 | Added: 06.12.2022
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Adjuvant treatment Endocrine therapy Trials
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The AMAROS trial evaluated axillary lymph node dissection (ALND; n=744) vs. axillary radiotherapy (ART; n=681) in patients with cT1-2 breast cancer with positive sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). The...
Sanne A.L Bartels,MD,Phd,MSc et al | Journal of Clinical Oncology
16.11.2022 | Added: 16.11.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Axilla Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy/ SLNB Trials Radiotherapy
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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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Targeted axillary dissection (TAD) involves targeted lymph node biopsy and SLNB. SenTa study is a prospective registry study conducted across 50 centres which aims to investigate the feasibility and a...
Sherko Kuemmel et al | National Library of Medicine
01.11.2022 | Added: 01.11.2022
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
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