NHSBSP Guidelines for Pathology Reporting in Breast Disease

NHSBSP Pub. No. 58 Version 2

Published January, 2005 and amended October, 2005

This document has been produced jointly by the NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) and the Royal College of Pathologists(RCPath). It represents the third edition of the NHSBSP guidelines for pathology reporting in breast cancer screening and the second edition of the RCPath's minimum data set for breast cancer histopathology .It gives guidance and recommendations on all aspects of pathology examination of breast lesions and is relevant to both screen detected and symptomatic disease.

A high resolution copy of NHSBSP58 52Mb

A low resolution copy of NHSBSP58 3Mb

NHSBSP histopathology reporting form 65Kb

Path Breast Cancer Histopathology Minimum Dataset report 56Kb

NHSBSP wide bore needle biopsy form 57Kb

Breast histopathology synoptic report 65Kb

A high resolution PDF of the Breast Cancer Grading poster that will accompany this publication 1.3Mb

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