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Association of Breast Surgeons of India (ABSI) Practical Consensus Statement, Recommendations, and Guidelines for the Treatment of Breast Cancer in India 2021—Indian Solutions for Indian Problems

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Several international and national consensus guidelines from professional bodies and expert panels are available for the management of breast cancers. The widely used international guidelines are from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), St. Gallen International Expert Consensus, and the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) of the UK. This article is an update from the Association of Breast Surgeons of India (ABSI) regarding the guidelines to manage breast cancer in India. The earlier version of the same was published in 2016. This article has been updated with the latest research work in the management of breast cancer to date and necessary changes made to the earlier version.

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  1. Manipal Comprehensive Cancer Center, Manipal Hospitals, # 98, HAL Airport Road, Bangalore, 560017, India

    S. P. Somashekhar, K. R. Ashwin & C. Rohit Kumar

  2. Department of Surgical Oncology BRA-IRCH & National Cancer Institute (NCI), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India

    S. V. S. Deo

  3. Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research and Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700020, India

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  4. Department of Surgery University College of Medical Sciences, (University of Delhi) & Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Delhi, 110095, India

    Navneet Kaur

  5. Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Sanjay Jain

  6. KIMS-USHALAKSHMI Centre for Breast Diseases, KIMS Hospitals, Hyderabad, India

    Raghuram Pillarisetti

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Somashekhar, S.P., Deo, S.V.S., Sarkar, D. et al. Association of Breast Surgeons of India (ABSI) Practical Consensus Statement, Recommendations, and Guidelines for the Treatment of Breast Cancer in India 2021—Indian Solutions for Indian Problems. Indian J Surg 84 (Suppl 3), 573–584 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-021-03160-y

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