Breast Surgery

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Dr Jeremy Khoo offers surgical treatment for both malignant breast conditions (breast cancer) and benign breast conditions.

Breast surgeries performed by Dr Jeremy Khoo include: 

Breast Cancer Surgery

1. Oncoplastic Breast Conserving Surgery

  • Treatment of breast cancers can be optimised using plastic surgical techniques to minimise scars and preserve the breast shape

  • Breast reshaping by moving tissue within the breast after lumpectomy

  • Partial breast reconstruction by replacing volume loss from cancer lumpectomy with local tissue flaps to avoid mastectomy

2. Mastectomy

  • Total Mastectomy where it is not safe or feasible to preserve the breast due to factors of the underlying disease

  • Skin sparing and Nipple Sparing Mastectomy to facilitate immediate breast reconstruction

  • Risk-reduction surgery for high risk women

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3. Axillary Surgery

  • Sentinel Node biopsy and Axillary Dissection

4. Breast Reconstruction

  • Immediate or Delayed breast reconstruction with implants or tissue expanders

  • Breast symmetrisation to match the non-cancer breast to the cancer affected breast

5. Nipple Reconstruction

6. Porta-cath insertion & removal (for chemotherapy treatments)

Benign Breast Surgery

  • Microdochectomy and total duct excision to manage and diagnose troublesome nipple discharge

  • Excisional Biopsies of benign and indeterminate breast lumps

  • Functional Breast Reduction for symptomatic large breasts (Patients will require a referral from their GP indicating pain resulting from their large breasts)

  • Gynaecomastia Surgery – Removal of breast tissue in men

  • Removal of accessory breast tissue