We offer a range of support – from new breast concerns to cancer diagnoses, treatment, and aftercare.
Our team is made up of surgeons, breast care nurses, radiologists, oncologists, and pathologists.
The service is located in different areas of New Cross Hospital, but you can expect to be cared for in outpatients, radiotherapy, or at the Deanesly Centre.
A27, New Cross Hospital
If you have been to see your GP with a concern about your breast, they will refer you to the hospital to see a breast consultant, registrar, or clinical nurse specialist, who will carry out an assessment.
Once referred, you will be seen as quickly as possible (usually within two weeks), in one of our new patient clinics. Most patients referred to the breast clinic will not have cancer, but it is important to establish the correct diagnosis for each patient quickly, so that appropriate advice and treatment can be given.
Assessment of the breast is divided into three parts, and is referred to as ‘triple assessment’:
Tel: 01902 695144
Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 3.30pm.
We have an answerphone and messages are picked up at regular intervals during the day. Any messages left after 3pm may not be returned until the next working day.
Please leave your name and a phone number that we can call you back on, or if you are an inpatient, please leave your name and hospital number.
If you have an urgent query, please contact switchboard on 01902 307999 and ask to be put through to the on-call mobile. This is available between the hours of 9am and 3pm.
If we are with another patient, we may not be able to respond immediately. Please be patient or try again later.
