Breast Surgeries

The Breast Health & Oncology Care Centre at the Andrews Memorial hospital is Jamaica’s first specialist breast care facility offering personalized multidisciplinary management of patients with breast cancers as well as comprehensive care of benign (non-cancer) breast conditions.

1. Breast Biopsies   
2. Excision of benign breast lumps
   
3. Hidden scar nipple sparing mastectomies (removal of all breast tissue without removing the nipple and areola with incisions deliberately hidden from sight)
4. Endoscopic nipple sparing mastectomies (form of hidden scar nipple sparing mastectomy using small caliber optical instruments)
5. Oncolplastic Breast Conservation Surgery (breast sparing surgery for the treatment of breast cancer with reshaping of the breast contour)
   Post mastectomy implant based reconstruction
6. Oncolplastic Breast Conservation Surgery (breast sparing surgery for the treatment of breast cancer with reshaping of the breast contour)
7. Post mastectomy implant based reconstruction
8. Breast Reduction (decreasing the size of the breasts for patients experiencing symptoms due to the large size of their breasts)
9. Sentinel lymph node biopsy (minimally invasive procedure for axillary lymph node assessment in breast cancer treatment) using gamma detection and/or blue dye
10. Axillary lymph node dissection (removal of axillary nodes for patients with breast cancer)
11. Radioactive occult lesion localization of breast lesions
12. Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Risk Modification