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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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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Guidance for the Commissioning of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
The ABS have collaborated with BAPRAS and Breast Cancer Now to produce this guidance document for the delivery of Oncoplastic & Reconstructive Surgery. The document is aimed at commissioners with the ...
Association of Breast Surgery, British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons and Breast Cancer Now, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2018 | Added: 01.06.2018
Classifications: Service Guidance
Keywords: Oncoplastic Surgery Commissioning
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Clinical advice to Cancer Alliances for the provision of Breast Cancer Services
The 2017 publication from the Breast Cancer Clinical Expert Group is not a guidance document per se but instead a list of best practice recommendations to commissioners and acute trusts for a modern b...
Breast Cancer Clinical Expert Group, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2017 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Service Guidance
Keywords: Service Guidance Breast Cancer Services
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Advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment (CG81)
This NICE guideline was originally written in 2009 and was last updated on 30 June 2026.
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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This document provides a comprehensive review of the evidence behind the surgical management of risk reducing and contralateral mastectomies. Evaluation of surgical techniques is included as are chemo...
Society of Surgical Oncology | USA
01.01.2017 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast Cancer Risk
Keywords: Contralateral Mastectomy Risk Reducing Surgery Chemoprevention
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ABS Summary Statement: Contralateral mastectomy for unilateral breast cancer
Association of Breast Surgery, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2017 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast Cancer Risk
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Axillary treatment for operable primary breast cancer
This is a comprehensive and rigorous review of all modern published data on axillary treatment in women with early breast cancer. Sentinel node biopsy, axillary surgery and axillary radiotherapy are e...
Cochrane Library, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2017 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Axilla Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy/ SLNB Radiotherapy
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National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE), UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2017 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast Cancer Risk
Keywords: Familial Breast Cancer/ Family History
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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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The American Society of Breast Surgery have produced a comprehensive review of the literature on Contralateral Mastectomy in patients with unilateral cancers (called prophylactic mastectomy in their p...
American Society of Breast Surgeons | USA
01.01.2016 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast Cancer Risk
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Sentinel Lymph node biopsy for patients with early stage breast cancer update
The ASCO recommendations are similar to those proposed in the ABS Summary Statement: Management of the Malignant Axilla in Early Breast Cancer and are supported by the ABS.
American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), USA | USA
01.01.2016 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Axilla Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy/ SLNB
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Pertuzumab for the neoadjuvant treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer (TA424)
This guidance re-emphasises the importance of discussing all ER-ve and HER2+ve breast cancer patients in the pre-operative MDT
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2016 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Adjuvant & Neoadjuvant Treatment
Keywords: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy/ NACT
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ABS Summary Statement: Breast Implant Associated-Anaplastic Lymph Cell Lymphoma
Association of Breast Surgery, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2016 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Cosmetic Surgery
Keywords: ALCL/ BIA ALCL Cosmetic Surgery Breast implants
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Nipple and areolar sparing mastectomy for the treatment of breast cancer
This Cochrane Review concludes that there is low quality evidence on which to decide upon oncological safety of nipple sparing mastectomies when compared to skin sparing mastectomies or standard maste...
Cochrane Library, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2016 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Nipple sparing Areolar sparing
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NICE Quality Standard: Breast Cancer (QS12)
This document by NICE provides the quality standards that underpin care of breast cancer patients in England & Wales. In Scotland the similar document Guideline 134 provides a similar function.
National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE), UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2016 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Service Guidance
Keywords: Breast Cancer Management
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ABS Summary Statement: Guidelines on antibiotic prophylaxis in breast surgery
Association of Breast Surgery, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2015 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: Antiobiotic Prophylaxis
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Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for patients undergoing breast operations
The incidence of VTE is lower after breast surgery than that seen following abdominal or lower limb surgery. The American Society of Breast Surgeons have produced well referenced recommendations on VT...
American Society of Breast Surgeons
01.01.2015 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast & Oncoplastic Surgery
Keywords: VTE
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This overview summarises the NICE guidance but also discusses what needs to be put in place in secondary care to provide the service. There is a clear discussion of the Manchester Scoring System to c...
Association of Breast Surgery, UK | United Kingdom
01.01.2015 | Added: 01.02.2018
Classifications: Breast Cancer Risk
Keywords: Familial Breast Cancer/ Family History Risk Reducing Surgery Chemoprevention
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