Investment in Cancer Surgery
The Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre Trust Fund has delivered $337,000 in new equipment to signal the start of reconstructive surgery on the Border. The equipment includes a $274,000 surgical microscope that will enable cancer patients who have undergone a mastectomy, to have a breast reconstruction at Albury Base Hospital in the future. It will […]
Reconstructive surgery life changing for a Howlong mum
Following a mastectomy in 2018, a Howlong mum was placed on a waiting list to have a breast reconstruction done in Melbourne. She waited without word for two years before, last October, she became the first person to undergo the life-changing breast surgery at Albury Hospital. The seven-hour procedure to rebuild her left breast was […]
Immense benefits for border patients
The breast reconstruction was performed by plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Dr Queenie Chan. Since Mrs Lions’ surgery, Dr Chan has performed an immediate reconstruction — done at the same time as a mastectomy for another mum living near the NSW-Victorian border. The new equipment has also been used on a motorbike accident victim and has […]
Bordermail Equipment
HEALTH ACHIEVEMENT: Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre Trust Fund board member Di Thomas, Albury Wodonga Health chief operating officer Emma Poland and surgeon Queenie Chan. Dr Chan said reconstructive surgery remained integral to the cancer journey. “Without the reconstruction, a lot of these patients are not able to move past their cancer experience and get […]
Breast Reconstruction for Border Mum
The Howlong mum, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 and had a mastectomy and then treatment, was the first person to have a breast reconstruction done at Albury Hospital. “I would have had to have my reconstructive surgery down in Melbourne – I have been on the wait list for two years,” Mrs […]
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