| The Breast
Centre The Breast Centre brings together a multidisciplinary team to provide
a diagnostic, treatment and support service for women (and men)
with breast disease. Working in conjunction with the Burnside Hospital
and Dr Jones and Partners radiology service, Professor Stephen
Birrell and Dr Clive Hoffmann provide a comprehensive inpatient
and outpatient breast care service. Complementing the team is Dr Michele Brooke Davey Breast Clinician and Dr Julie Connor Psychiatrist.
The Breast Centre itself
is specifically designed to ensure that all necessary diagnostic
procedures can be performed
onsite in
one convenient, comfortable and private location by the specialist
breast surgeons, radiologists and pathologists. Most patients
will have results of their assessments and a treatment
plan before they
leave the Centre.
How to Find
and Contact Us…
The Breast Centre is located on the ground floor of the heritage
listed Attunga House in the grounds of the Burnside Hospital.
The Breast Centre
Attunga House
97 Hewitt Ave, Toorak Gardens SA 5065
Tel : (08) 8331 3322 or (08) 8331 3662
Fax : (08) 8431 9811
Web: www.breastclinic.com.au
Email : info@breastclinic.com.au
For nursing queries email :
nurse@breastclinic.com.au
Services
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Evaluation of breast problems |
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Diagnosis, pre-treatment assessment and planning of
therapy |
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Multidisciplinary team review and planning of adjuvant
treatment |
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Second opinion on treatment recommendations |
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Family risk assessment |
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Team approach for breast reconstruction |
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Follow up services |
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Psychological support |
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Referral service to :
> Reconstructive plastic
surgeons
> Oncologists
> Radiotherapists
> Psychologists
> Sexual counsellors
> Genetic counsellors for
high risk patients
> Lymphoedema / Laser physiotherapists |
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A specialist Breast Care Nurse is
available to provide patient education, counseling and
support both in the Centre and in the hospital setting,
including information regarding breast cancer prevention
and screening programs. |
Referral
Procedure
A referral to the centre
from a General Practitioner or other treating medical specialist
is essential.
The referring General Practitioner
and /or treating
specialist are kept informed of all diagnoses and treatment
plans.
Health
Insurance
For any queries regarding
consultation and treatment fees please contact the Practice
Manager on 8331 3322 or info@breastclinic.com.au
The Breast
Centre Team
Medical Specialists
Professor Stephen Birrell
Professor Stephen Birrell graduated from Flinders University
in undergraduate medicine and was awarded a Doctorate of
Philosophy in molecular oncology.
He has studied in Europe and the USA in surgical oncology and is currently
Head
of the Breast Cancer Unit at Flinders Medical Centre and is a Senior
Visiting Surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital Breast Cancer Unit and
Breast Screen
SA. He has exclusively been doing breast surgery for the last 12 years
with a special
interest in hormonal regulation of the breast and breast cancer genetics.
Dr Clive Hoffmann
Dr Clive Hoffmann graduated from the University of Sydney.
He trained in General Surgery in Adelaide and then did further
specialist training
in
Leeds and London
in the United Kingdom. He has been in Private Surgical practice in Adelaide
for twenty years, (the last five almost exclusively in Breast and Endocrine
Surgery)
as well being a visiting specialist in the Breast and Endocrine Surgical
Unit at Flinders Medical Centre and at Breast Screen South Australia.
Dr Michelle Brooke Davy
Introducing our new Breast Clinician Dr Michele Brooke Davey, we are very pleased to have her join our Breast Centre Team.
Michele will be consulting all day on Mondays and on Thursday afternoons, seeing post-operative and review patients. Her appointment was in response to our increasing patient numbers and the long waiting time for medical review after imaging.
Michele studied science at the Flinders University of SA in 1978 and studied medicine from 1979 – 1985 including overseas studies in France in 1985. After post-graduate training at Flinders Medical Centre, she started work in private practice in 1990.
In addition to comprehensive general practice care, Michele has special interests in Women’s Health, preventative health and screening programs, patient education and counselling. She also has post-graduate training in anesthesia and intensive care, Paediatrics including neonatal care.
Michele has been involved in teaching of medical students and awarded status by the School of Medicine at Flinders University of SA
Dr Julie Connor
Julie studied medicine at Flinders University after completing a Bachelor of Arts (Adelaide) and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Flinders). She has lived and worked in the United States and in SE Asia.
When not at the Breast Centre, Julie is a consultant in the Intensive Care psychiatry setting, and engaged one day a week in general adult psychiatry. She has worked exclusively with women in Helen Mayo House and the perinatal psychiatry position at the Women and Children's Hospital., and has undertaken postgraduate study in perinatal psychiatry.
The Breast Centre Staff
Nursing
Staff
Women's Health
Nurse – Mrs
Jane Marsh
Clinical Nurse – Mrs
Gillian Miller
Reception Staff
Office Manager – Mrs Annette Roberts
Useful and Recommended
Links for Further Information :
www.breastcancer.org
www.nbcc.org.au
www.cancersa.org
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