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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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The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have recently produced best practice guidance for the removal of breast prostheses. The recommendations are straightforward and pragmatic. August 2025: Following...
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2023 | Added: 01.09.2023
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Implant Loss/ removal Breast implants
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Radiotherapy dose fractionation: fourth edition
This UK wide guidance, produced by the Clinical Oncology Group of the Royal College of Radiologists, updates the UK consensus statement on post operative radiotherapy for breast cancer from 2016
The Royal College of Radiologists
01.01.2023 | Added: 20.08.2025
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Radiotherapy
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ESO-ESMO 5th International Consensus Guidelines for Breast Cancer in Young Women
In 2022, the European School of Oncology (ESO) and the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) updated their consensus and evidence based guidelines for the management of early and advanced breast...
European School of Oncology & European Society of Medical Oncology | Italy
01.11.2022 | Added: 27.08.2025
Classifications: Breast Cancer Treatment
Keywords: Management of the younger patient
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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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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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ABS Summary Statement: Writing Letters to Patients
Following the Paterson inquiry in 2021, the Department of Health recommended that clinicians write directly to patients after clinic visits. This document offers the rationale behind this decision and...
Association of Breast Surgery, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2022 | Added: 01.04.2022
Classifications: Service Guidance
Keywords: Communication with patients
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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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Medical Technologies Guidance MTG54
NICE conclude that the VAC Veraflo Therapy system shows promise for treating acute infected or chronic wounds that are not healing. However there is not enough good-quality evidence to support the cas...
NICE, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.02.2021
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Negative Pressure Wound Dressings
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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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Gynaecomastia Infographic for Primary Care
The Royal College of General Practitioners have endorsed the ABS infographic for the assessment and referral of gynaecomastia patients in Primary Care. ABS members are welcome to download this infogra...
Association of Breast Surgery | UK
01.01.2021 | Added: 01.02.2021
Classifications: Benign & Atypical Breast Disease
Keywords: Gynaecomastia
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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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This guidance, along with the Royal College of Surgeons of England Good Practice Guide, 'Consent: Supported Decision-Making' provide up to date information about the consent process.
General Medical Council, UK
09.11.2020 | Added: 27.08.2025
Classifications: Service Guidance
Keywords: Consent
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