Miss Christina Choy

Surgeon in London

MBBS FRACS FRCSEd FCSHK

GMC: 3553082

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Miss Christina Choy is an experienced oncoplastic breast surgeon based in London. She treats all with respect, honesty and with compassion and professionalism. She has a specialist expertise in one-stop rapid assessment for various breast symptoms and lumps, family history risk assessment and genetic testing, breast screening and counselling, state of the arts management for both benign breast disease and breast cancer. She works with a group of dedicated multidisciplinary team members to provide holistic personal care with updated and cutting-edge management approaches for breast management..

Miss Christina Choy qualified from the Medical School of the University of Sydney and undertook her postgraduate training in surgery and has worked in various major centres in Australia, Hong Kong and the UK, including The Royal Marsden Hospital and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. She worked as consultant breast surgeon in the NHS previously and was once Lead for the Breast Service at the Homerton University Hospital. She has worked in the private sector since 2003. From January 2017 she has worked exclusively in the private sectors with practising privileges at the London Breast Institute in the Princess Grace Hospital, the London Clinic, OneWelbeck, King Edward VII Hospital, the Harley Street Clinic (16 Devonshire Street), The Lister Hospital, the Chelsea Outpatient Centre, the Chiswick Medical Centre and the Clementine Churchill Hospital

Miss Choy has worked in research and studies in conjunction with the pathology department at St Bartholomew's Hospital on a study of the gene arrays and demographic data of young women, particularly Afro-Caribbean women and other ethnic groups, presenting with breast cancer. Other projects that she is involved in include research into barriers to women accessing early diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer in various ethnic groups (in conjunction with King's College Hospital), and presented the development of a 23-hour model for early discharge after breast cancer surgery in Parliament for Black Afro-Caribbean and Ethnic Minority Group, BAEM).

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Credentials

GMC: ‍3553082

Professional experience

• More than 35 years of experience
• Consultant Breast Surgeon, London Breast Institute, Princess Grace Hospital, London (present)
• Consultant Breast Surgeon, Harley Street Clinic, London (present)
• Consultant Breast Surgeon, HCA Chiswick Outpatient and Diagnostic Centre, London (present)
• Consultant Breast Surgeon at Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, London (previous)

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Sub-specialties

• One stop rapid breast assessment with 3D mammogram, ultrasound scan and MRI breast scan
• Risk assessment and counselling, including lifestyle holistic approach, genetic testing and risk reduction surgeries
• Breast cancer treatment (oncoplastic surgery, using implants, flaps and fat transfer (liporemodelling)
• Breast reconstruction
• Breast screening
• Breast lumps (axilla lumps and swelling)
• Breast pain and discomfort
• Breast augmentation
• Breast reduction
• Cosmetic breast surgery
• Mammoplasty
• Lymphoedema management
• Nipple discharge, areola rash and itchiness

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Positions in public associations

• Trustee for the Breast Cancer Hope charity

Education

• MBBS at University of Sydney (1986)
• FCSHK at College of Surgeons, Hong Kong (1993)
• FRCS(Ed) at Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh (1993)
• FRACS at Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1998)

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Publications and conferences

• Miss Choy has published peer-reviewed papers in leading medical journals in the field of skin sparing mastectomy and reconstruction, ductal carcinoma in situ and lipofilling.
• Nipple-sparing mastectomy using a hemi-periareolar incision with or without minimal medial-lateral extensions; clinical outcome and patient satisfaction: a single centre prospective observational study. El Hage Chehade H, Headon H, Wazir U, Carmaichael AR, Choy C, Kasem A, Mokbel K, Am J Surg. 2016.
• Clinical outcome and patient satisfaction with the use of bovine-derived acellular dermal matrix (SurgiMend™) in implant based immediate reconstruction following skin sparing mastectomy: A prospective observational study in a single centre. Headon H, Kasem A, Manson A, Choy C, Carmichael AR, Mokbel K, Surg Oncol. 2016.
• Current treatment of DCIS. Choy C , Mokbel K , WJCO. 2015.
• Towards optimal treatment of DCIS. Choy C, Mokbel K, WJCO. 2014.
• Evaluation of outcome after immediate breast reconstruction: prospective comparison of four methods. Gui G, Kodayaprath G, Tan SM, Faliakou El, Choy C et al. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2005.
• Immediate breast reconstruction using biodimensional anatomical permanent expander implants: a prospective analysis of outcome and patient satisfaction. Maxwell GP, Gui G, Tan SM, Faliakou E, Choy C, A’Hern R and Ward A, Plast Reconstr Surg. 2003.
• Predictors of positive margins after local excision of ductal carcinoma in situ. Mokbel K, Choy C et al . Am J Surg. 2001.
• Adjuvant radiotherapy for DCIS. Mokbel K, Choy C, Carpenter R, Lancet. 2000.

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Professional membership

• Member of Association of Breast Surgeons in UK
• Member of Breast Surgeons International
• Member of Breast Section at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

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Languages spoken

English
Chinese (Mandarin)