Showing 14 Resources filtered by Breast Screening
- 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 […]
Vacuum Assisted Biopsy (VAB) and Vacuum Assisted Excision (VAE) of the Breast
The doctor has recommended that you have either a vacuum assisted biopsy (VAB) or a vacuum assisted excision (VAE) of the breast. Both procedures, although they have different names, are essentially the same. They are done to give us more information about changes in the breast that have been found either on your mammogram (breast […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Volume Replacement Breast Surgery
This type of surgery may be suitable for someone who has a breast cancer (tumour) and wishes to conserve (keep the breast) therefore mastectomy (removal of the breast) may be avoided. Whenever breast conservation surgery is performed the surgeon must also remove an extra rim of normal healthy tissue surrounding the tumour to ensure a […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
Participant Information Sheet – IBEX Innovations Limited
Why are we conducting this research? IBEX Innovations Limited (IBEX), a high-technology business based locally in Sedgefield, has developed a unique software-based product called Trueview® which significantly improves the quality of mammogram images. To finalise development and testing of the Trueview® software, we would like to access mammogram images taken of patients in the clinical […]Topic: Breast Screening
Type: Patient information leaflets
Audience: Patients and visitors
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
You have been given an appointment to attend an Assessment Clinic in the Breast Screening Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead. This is the second stage of the breast screening process. Your screening mammograms have shown some changes in your breast which need to be investigated further. The majority of changes are benign and present […]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
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 […]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