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Breast biopsy, breast pathology

Australasia

• Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
  • Breast

Australia

• Cancer Australia
  • The use of fine needle aspiration and core biopsy of the breast

Brazil

• Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
  • Challenges in the evaluation of HER2 and HER2-low in breast cancer in Brazil and recommendations of a multidisciplinary working group [2024]

• Value in Health Regional Issues
  • The Negative Impact of the New Coronavirus Pandemic on the Trend of Breast Biopsies and Their Direct Costs: Interrupted Time Series Analysis [2023]

Bulgaria

• Clinical Surgical Oncology
  • Nationwide analysis of the breast cancer guidelines adherence in Bulgaria [2024]

Canada

• Current Oncology
  • Testing for her2 in breast cancer: current pathology challenges faced in Canada [2012]

Central and Eastern Europe

• Pathology & Oncology Research
  • Pathological Diagnosis, Work-Up and Reporting of Breast Cancer 1st Central-Eastern European Professional Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer [2022]

China

• Breast
  • Clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of breast cancer with special histological types: A surveillance, epidemiology, and end results database analysis [2020]

• Breast Cancer Research
  • Challenges and improvements in HER2 scoring and histologic evaluation: insights from a national proficiency testing scheme for breast cancer diagnosis in China [2024]

• Chinese Medical Journal
  • Clinical practice guidelines for visualized percutaneous breast tissue clips: Chinese Society of Breast Surgery (CSBrS) practice guideline 2021 [2021]
  • Clinical practice guidelines for ultrasound-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: Chinese Society of Breast Surgery (CSBrS) practice guidelines 2021 [2021]

Denmark

• Breast Cancer Research
  • High inter-laboratory variability in the assessment of HER2-low breast cancer: a national registry study on 50,714 Danish patients [2023]

Egypt

• JCO Global Oncology
  • Clinicopathologic Features of Breast Cancer in Egypt-Contemporary Profile and Future Needs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]

Europe

• European Lobular Breast Cancer Consortium
  • Integration of Pathological Criteria and Immunohistochemical Evaluation for Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Diagnosis: Recommendations From the European Lobular Breast Cancer Consortium [2024]

• European Society of Breast Imaging
  • Image-guided breast biopsy and localisation: recommendations for information to women and referring physicians by the European Society of Breast Imaging [2020]

India

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Stereotactic breast biopsy: A review & applicability in the Indian context [2021]

International

• Acta Cytologica
  • Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Diagnostic Accuracy of the International Academy of Cytology Yokohama System for Reporting Breast Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy in Diagnosing Breast Cancer [2023]

• American Journal of Clinical Pathology
  • The Use of the International Academy of Cytology Yokohama System for Reporting Breast Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy [2023]

• Annals of Oncology
  • Recommendations for standardized pathological characterization of residual disease for neoadjuvant clinical trials of breast cancer by the BIG-NABCG collaboration [2015]

• Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • First International Consensus Conference on lesions of uncertain malignant potential in the breast (B3 lesions) [2016]

• Breast Health Global Initiative
  • Can pathology diagnostic services for cancer be stratified and serve global health? [2020]

• Histopathology
  • Phyllodes tumours of the breast: a consensus review [2016]
  • Breast lesions of uncertain malignant nature and limited metastatic potential: Proposals to improve their recognition and clinical management [2016]

• International Academy of Cytology
  • IAC Standardized Reporting of Breast Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy Cytology [2017]

• International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting
  • Dataset for reporting of the invasive carcinoma of the breast: recommendations from the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) [2024]
  • Invasive Carcinoma of the Breast
  • Ductal Carcinoma In Situ, Variants of Lobular Carcinoma In Situ and Low Grade Lesions

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The "Forgotten" Subtypes of Breast Carcinoma: A Systematic Review of Selected Histological Variants Not Included or Not Recognized as Distinct Entities in the Current World Health Organization Classification of Breast Tumors [2024]

• Modern Pathology
  • Results of a worldwide survey on the currently used histopathological diagnostic criteria for invasive lobular breast cancer [2022]
  • Standardization of pathologic evaluation and reporting of postneoadjuvant specimens in clinical trials of breast cancer: recommendations from an international working group [2015]

• Translational Breast Cancer Research
  • Breast biopsy techniques in a global setting-clinical practice review [2023]

Iran

• World Journal of Surgical Oncology
  • Chronological changes and trend of breast cancer clinics and pathology among Iranian women during 22 years from the largest breast cancer registry in Iran [2019]

Ireland, United Kingdom

• Journal of Clinical Pathology
  • Impact of COVID-19 on the practice of breast pathologists: a survey of breast pathologists in the UK and Ireland [2023]

Italy

• Pathologica
  • Pathological examination of breast cancer samples before and after neoadjuvant therapy: recommendations from the Italian Group for the Study of Breast Pathology - Italian Society of Pathology (GIPaM-SIAPeC) [2022]

Japan

• Breast Cancer
  • The Japanese breast cancer society clinical practice guidelines for pathological diagnosis of breast cancer, 2022 edition [2024]

Netherlands

• Breast
  • The impact of standardized structured reporting of pathology reports for breast cancer care [2022]

Republic of Korea

• Cancers
  • A Comparison of the Prognostic Effects of Fine Needle Aspiration and Core Needle Biopsy in Patients with Breast Cancer: A Nationwide Multicenter Prospective Registry [2023]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
  • Assessment of Breast Pathology Reporting Needs and Development of Tumor Synoptic Templates in Sub-Saharan Africa [2025]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Breast cancer pathology services in sub-Saharan Africa: a survey within population-based cancer registries [2020]

Switzerland

• Acta Radiologica
  • Lesions with unclear malignant potential (B3) after minimally invasive breast biopsy: evaluation of vacuum biopsies performed in Switzerland and recommended further management [2015]

United Kingdom

• British Journal of Cancer
  • The presentation, management and outcome of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) with microinvasion (invasion <=1 mm in size)-results from the UK Sloane Project [2022]

• Journal of Clinical Pathology
  • Updated UK Recommendations for HER2 assessment in breast cancer [2015]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Image-guided radiofrequency excision biopsy of breast lesions [2009]

• NHS England
  • NHS Breast Screening Programme Guidance: Biopsy testing guidance

• Public Health England
  • Breast screening: how to record vacuum-assisted excisions

• Royal College of Pathologists
  • Dataset for histopathological reporting of breast disease in surgical excision specimens of breast cancer [2024]
  • Guidelines for non-operative diagnostic procedures and reporting in breast cancer screening [2021]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Core-Needle Biopsy for Breast Abnormalities [2016]

• American College of Radiology
  • ACR Practice Parameter for the Performance of Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Breast Interventional Procedures
  • ACR Practice Parameter for the Performance of Stereotactic-Tomosynthesis Guided Breast Interventional Procedure
  • ACR Practice Parameter for the Performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Breast Interventional Procedures

• Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • The 21-Gene Recurrence Score in Clinically High-Risk Lobular and Ductal Breast Cancer: A National Cancer Database Study [2022]
  • Eighth Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual: Breast Cancer [2018]

• BMC Women's Health
  • Development of a diagnostic test set to assess agreement in breast pathology: practical application of the Guidelines for Reporting Reliability and Agreement Studies (GRRAS) [2013]

• Breast
  • Surgical Margin Reporting in Breast Conserving Surgery: Does compliance with guidelines affect re-excision and mastectomy rates? [2015]

• Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium
  • Breast biopsy patterns and findings among older women undergoing screening mammography: The role of age and comorbidity [2022]
  • Breast Biopsy Recommendations and Breast Cancers Diagnosed during the COVID-19 Pandemic [2022]
  • Breast Biopsy Intensity and Findings Following Breast Cancer Screening in Women With and Without a Personal History of Breast Cancer [2018]
  • Trends in Breast Tissue Sampling and Pathology Diagnoses among Women Undergoing Mammography in the U.S.: A Report from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium [2015]

• CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
  • Breast Cancer—Major changes in the American Joint Committee on Cancer eighth edition cancer staging manual [2017]

• College of American Pathologists
  • Protocol for the Examination of Resection Specimens from Patients with Invasive Carcinoma of the Breast [2024]
  • Breast Fine-Needle Aspiration Practice in 2019: Results of a College of American Pathologists National Survey [2021]

• JAMA Oncology
  • Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Prognosis of ERBB2-Low Breast Cancer Among Patients in the National Cancer Database [2023]

• StatPearls
  • Stereotactic and Needle Breast Biopsy

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