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Dr Leah Marley
MBBS FRACS Leah Marley is a specialist breast surgeon, who completed her surgical training in 2018, followed by a fellowship year at St Vincent’s, Melbourne, and was the Senior Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Fellow at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London in 2022-2023. She undertook a Masters of Surgery through the University of Sydney, which she […]
Cancer: “The Forgotten C” of the Pandemic
Cancer- “The Forgotten C” of the Pandemic With Victorian health department and government officials focused entirely on COVID-19 case numbers, and people afraid to go to doctor’s rooms and hospitals, for fear of catching the disease, cancer specialists such as myself see a new emerging public health crisis going unnoticed, which may lead to […]
Audit 2018/ Unilateral/ Bilateral Mastectomy Rates/ Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Each year, I perform a detailed audit of my surgical activity for the previous year, which I publish on this webpage and also post on Facebook – www.facebook.com/DrJaneOBrien . I believe that it is useful and informative for breast surgeons to regularly undertake a formal assessment and analysis of their surgical activity for breast cancer […]
Choosing the Most Appropriate Form of Breast Reconstruction when Post-Mastectomy Radiation is Required
Breast Reconstruction and Post-Mastectomy Radiotherapy (PMRT) Each year, around this time, I perform a detailed audit of my surgical activity for the previous calendar year, which I publish in February/March on this webpage and also post on Facebook -www.facebook.com/DrJaneOBrien. I believe that it is useful and informative for breast surgeons to regularly undertake a formal […]
2016 Personal Breast Cancer Surgical Activity Analysis
Choosing your breast cancer surgeon is a very important decision, as not only may it influence the range of surgical options you are offered, but your breast surgeon acts as the “gatekeeper” to your entire specialist multidisciplinary breast cancer treatment team. (1) It is useful and informative for breast surgeons to regularly undertake a formal […]
2015 Personal Breast Cancer Surgical Activity Analysis
It is useful and informative for breast surgeons to regularly undertake a formal assessment and analysis of their surgical activity for breast cancer, and in my opinion, this information should ideally be available to existing and potential patients. Choosing your breast cancer surgeon is a very important decision, as not only may it influence the […]
Breast Screening: The Debate Between Supporters and Sceptics Continues
Decades after mammographic breast screening programs were established, their value continues to be subject to hot debate, primarily about the magnitude and nature of the benefits and harms. The battle rests mainly on the chance of saving a life compared with the risk of “over diagnosis”, defined as the diagnosis of a cancer that would […]
How dense are you? New research shows that not all dense breasts pose an increased cancer risk.
Women who are found to have dense breasts on a normal mammogram are sometimes encouraged to undergo further imaging to check for breast cancer, but a new US study shows that more than half of these women are at not at high risk and recommends that other risk factors should be considered before further investigation. […]
Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy as Safe as More Radical Surgical Options
Women with early-stage breast cancer who choose to preserve the nipple during mastectomy have similar survival and recurrence rates as women who undergo standard or skin sparing surgery, according to research presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons in Florida. Concerns have in the past existed about nipple-sparing mastectomy […]
What Patients Want
In the romantic comedy, “What Women Want”, Mel Gibson played a somewhat chauvinistic advertising executive, who after a fluke accident, gained the ability to hear what women were thinking, and what women really wanted. The result surprised and shocked him. I feel the same way about American research examining what patients say they want most […]
