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- Follow up plan This booklet will inform you of your planned follow up care after treatment for breast cancer. Once you have completed treatment you will not need to attend the follow up clinic regularly but you will remain under our care for the next five years. This means that you will not have to […]
Secondary Breast Cancer
What is secondary breast cancer? Sometimes cancer cells can travel from the original tumour in the breast and spread to other parts of the body through the blood or lymph system. The organs that breast cancer usually spreads to are bone, liver or lungs. When breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body, it […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Breast Screening and Assessment Unit
Guidance regarding your breast screening visit following COVID19 pandemic. If you or someone you live with is feeling unwell or develops any COVID19 symptoms (high temperature over 37.8°, new cough, loss of sense of smell and/or taste) you should not attend this appointment and call us on 0191 4453747 and we can rearrange this appointment […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Vacuum Assisted Core Biopsy of the Breast (VACB)
The doctor has recommended that you have a vacuum assisted core biopsy of the breast (VACB) because your mammogram (breast x-ray) has shown an abnormality. The majority of abnormalities are benign (innocent) and present no health risk to the patient, but it is important that we find out exactly what the abnormality is in your […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Wide Core Needle Biopsy of the Breast (WCNB)
The doctor has advised that you have a wide core needle biopsy of the breast (WCNB) because an abnormality has been found in your breast. The majority of these abnormalities are benign and present no health risk to the patient, but it is important that we find out exactly what the abnormality is in your […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Lipo-modelling (fat transfer) in breast surgery
What is Lipo-modelling? Lipo-modelling or fat grafting (sometimes called lipofilling or fat transfer) is a procedure used to try to improve the shape or size of the breast. It can be used on patients who have had a breast reconstruction or patients who have had a lumpectomy. What does it involve? Fat is taken from […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Breast Pain
This leaflet is for women who have breast pain and will give you advice and information about your breast pain.Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Auricular (ear) acupuncture
What is acupuncture? Acupuncture has been practised in China as a healing technique for thousands of years. It involves the insertion of tiny needles into points of the body that are believed to be able to help the body heal itself. It is used alongside standard treatment. “Auricular” is another name for ears, so auricular acupuncture means […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Your guide to discharge from the breast clinic
This leaflet has been produced to provide you with information about being discharged from the breast clinic. It aims to answer some of the questions often asked by patients. Why am I being discharged from the clinic? You have been seen regularly in the breast clinic to check that all is well following your previous breast […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Nipple Reconstruction
Why consider nipple and areola reconstruction Nipple and areola (the area surrounding the nipple) reconstruction is the final stage of breast reconstruction, when a nipple is made and the colour replaced to the surrounding areola. Nipple and areola reconstruction is offered to patients who have undergone breast reconstruction. It is usually delayed until three to […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors