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The Breast Unit is located within a dedicated clinic on the ground floor in the Birmingham Treatment Centre at City Health Campus.
A range of healthcare professionals made up of breast surgeons, oncoplastic surgeons, breast care nurses, radiologists, radiographers, pathologists and oncologists will be in involved in the care of patients.
We provide rapid access breast clinics for urgent and routine assessment of breast symptoms. Additional clinics include follow-up and results clinics and also family history clinics.
Services
Rapid access clinics are held on Monday and Wednesday mornings and Tuesday – mornings and afternoons – for the assessment of both urgent and routine breast conditions. Clinics are led by consultant breast surgeons and run jointly by members of the breast surgical team and breast consultant radiologists / radiographers.
Family history clinics are held alternate Wednesday afternoons. Women who have been assessed by genetics as having a higher risk of developing breast cancer are seen in this clinic.
The breast care nurses provide emotional support to patients with suspected breast cancer and those patients diagnosed with breast cancer.
We currently provide the breast screening services for West, North and East Birmingham populations. For more information about the breast screening service, go to: http://www.swbh.nhs.uk/services/breast-screening/ or http://www.bscreen.org.uk/city/(opens in a new tab).
Patient Information
- What to expect when you are referred to the Breast Unit at the Birmingham Treatment Centre ML6619(opens in a new tab)
- Advice following a core biopsy or fine needle aspiration (FNA) (ML4846)(opens in a new tab)
- Breast duct excision(opens in a new tab)
- Partial Breast Reconstruction AICAP (Anterior) ML6321(opens in a new tab)
- Partial Breast Reconstruction LICAP (Lateral) ML6322(opens in a new tab)
- Vacuum-assisted Core Biopsy (VAB) Assisted Excision (VAE) ML6412(opens in a new tab)
- Vacuum-assisted excision (VAE) of breast lesion(opens in a new tab)
- Macmillan Breast Care Nursing Service ML5143(opens in a new tab)
- Invenia™ Automated Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) ML6697(opens in a new tab)
- Advice following a core biopsy or fine needle aspiration (FNA) ML7360(opens in a new tab)
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- Patient Initiated Follow-up programme ML5078(opens in a new tab)
Breast Cancer treatment and follow-up:
Your team will provide you with specific information to your diagnosis and treatment plan; you can find some useful websites related to this below.
Contacts
Breast care nurses can be contacted by calling 0121 507 4976.
For medical secretaries see below:
Consultant Surgeons: | Secretary |
Mr Mehboob Mirza – Clinical Lead
Mrs Geeta Shetty |
Debbie Plant – 0121 507 4593 |
Miss Fiona Hoar
Mr Martin Sintler |
Lisa Lloyd – 0121 507 4593 |
Miss Javeria Iqbal
Mrs Rashmi Verma |
Jayne Turner – 0121 507 5111 |
For more information about disabled access for this service