The Breast Unit

The Breast Unit provides comprehensive services for patients with breast symptoms or disease and with close links to the screening service at the Jarvis Centre in Guildford. This team also provides services for melanoma.

The Breast Unit has expanded its services and its team to offer a modernised and fully integrated breast service. With new patient clinics offered four days a week and daily theatre sessions, the enhanced service is designed to meet our patients’ needs.  

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In accordance with the Cancer Reform Strategy, anyone with breast symptoms is seen within two weeks of referral.

Patients with breast cancer at the Royal Surrey County Hospital are benefiting from an innovative and quicker way of operating on and treating the disease.

Women undergoing breast cancer surgery are now being offered a one step diagnostic test – known as OSNA ‘One Step Nucleic Acid Amplification’ – that can be carried out while the patient is still in the operating theatre, avoiding the need for a second operation if the cancer is found to have spread to the lymph nodes.

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The Breast Unit is pleased to be participating in two National Trials in conjunction with the National Cancer Research Network; Poetic and NeoExcel.

These trials are designed to study the effects of hormone treatment on a woman’s cancer before she has it removed with surgery. We already use these drugs to treat breast cancer and know which groups of patients can benefit from them. These studies are very exciting because they will allow us to assess the effects of treatment on an individual woman’s cancer. This will allow us to make very individual cancer treatment plans for our patients in the future.

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