Your breast consultant may recommend a mastectomy if cancer is found in a large area of your breast and there are signs that the cancer has spread to your chest muscles or lymph nodes.
There are alternative and less extensive types of mastectomy, which can be as effective and cause fewer side effects. Your breast consultant will discuss your different treatment options with you.
A radical mastectomy usually takes about 90 minutes. During the operation, you will be under general anaesthetic.
Your surgeon will completely remove the breast, the overlying skin, the muscles beneath the breast, and the lymph nodes. Sometimes breast reconstruction surgery, such as DIEP flap, is done at the same time.
Ahead of your operation, your breast consultant will discuss your treatment options, the advantages and disadvantages of a radical mastectomy, and your options for breast reconstruction.
They will also talk to you about your recovery, and the possible physical and emotional effects of this type of surgery.
A radical mastectomy is a major operation. You will need to be cared for in hospital for up to four nights.
When you are ready to return home, your consultant or specialist nurse will let you know how to manage your recovery. Typically, it can take up to eight weeks before you can return to your normal activities, including work.
It may be a few months before your arm and chest area fully recover.
Below is an outline of our self-pay hospital package which includes tests, hospital stay and procedure. Please note: it does not include consultant fees, which may vary.
Hospital package from £6,910 (2 nights)
Indicative consultant fees from £675
- Standard pre-admission tests, including electrocardiogram (ECG) and chest X-ray
- Accommodation in a private en-suite room for up to two nights
- All meals
- Nursing
- Ward medications and dressings
- Theatre procedure and anaesthetics
- Inpatient physiotherapy, if needed, and surgical stockings
- Post-op and discharge medication
Exclusions
- Consultant consultation fee
- Consultant procedure fee
- Anaesthetist fee
- Non-standard diagnostic and histology tests
- Any additional costs not specified in the package inclusions
Included in the package price:
- Consultant Surgeon and Consultant Anaesthetist procedure fees.
- Two follow-up consultations with consultant within post-op timeframe
- Pre-admission outpatient tests, which includes standard pathology and diagnostic tests (ECG & Chest X-ray), if required.
- Recovery and accommodation which includes a stay in a private en-suite room.
- Ward medications, dressings, and nursing consumables.
- Theatre Procedure, including anaesthetic drugs and theatre consumables.
- Pathology, blood products and histology, if required.
- Breast Care services.
- Standard post–op medication issued and used during the inpatient stay.
- Inpatient physiotherapy and surgical stockings, if required.
- Discharge medication pertaining to the condition being treated by this package.
- All patient meals and non-alcoholic beverages.
- Post- op x-rays and physiotherapy pertaining to the procedure within 4 weeks
- Return to theatres within 1 week of the procedure date due to complication.
Excluded from the package price:
- Take out supplies.
- Companion beds and catering for relatives / visitors.
- Personal expenses – telephone calls, additional catering, ambulances, etc…
If additional night’s stay, diagnostics, or other services are requested from your consultant you will not be charged in addition for these as these are included within the fixed price package.
Consultants offering this package:
- Mr Giles Davies, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon
- Ms Mahwash Babar, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon
- Mr Rajiv Vashisht, Consultant General Surgeon
When enquiring about this package please quote B2710.
Clinical interests: Breast surgery, breast reconstruction, endocrine surgey, gynaecomastia, and retrosternal goitres.
Languages spoken: Arabic/English
Clinical interests: Oncoplastic reconstructive breast surgery, implant-based reconstruction and therapeutic/reduction mammoplasty, contralateral symmetrisation and revisional surgery, benign and developmental surgery, and nipple and duct surgery.
Languages spoken: English
Clinical interests: Breast Cancer, One Stop Breast Clinics, Cosmetic breast surgery including breast implants, breast reduction and asymmetry correction, Male breast problems
Languages spoken: Bengali/English/Hindi/Tamil/Urdu
Clinical interests: Diagnosis and management of benign breast diseases; breast cancer management; breast augmentation; oncoplastic breast surgery; reconstructive breast surgery; biomesh based breast reconstruction; breast implant surgery; complex corrective breast surgery; breast reduction surgery; surgery for gynaecomastia; day case general surgery procedures.
Languages spoken: Bengali/English/Hindi/Urdu
Clinical interests: Oncoplastic breast cancer surgery; breast cancer risk assessment; breast reconstruction; mastectomy and therapeutic mastectomy; lumpectomy; breast radiology.
Languages spoken: Cantonese/Chinese/English/Malay/Mandarin
Mr Giles Davies
/ Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon and Director of Breast Surgery
General surgery, Breast surgery
Clinical interests: Breast cancer surgery, breast reconstruction, and aesthetic breast surgery.
Languages spoken: English
Clinical interests: All procedures in breast surgery (including sentinel node biopsy, breast reconstruction, and intra-operative radiotherapy) and breast cancer, including second opinions, surgical oncology, and melanoma.
Languages spoken: English/French/Greek/Italian/Spanish
Ms Jennifer Hu
/ Consultant Oncoplastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgeon
General surgery, Breast surgery
Clinical interests: Rapid Diagnostic Breast Clinic/One Stop Breast Clinic and breast radiology; management of benign and malignant breast disease; expertise in family history of breast cancer, including main stream genetics; breast surgery – diagnostic, benign and cancer, and risk-reducing surgery; oncoplastic breast conservation surgery, including image guidance using wires and marker seeds; partial breast reconstruction using local thoracic flaps (LICAPs, MICAPS, AICAPS, TDAPs, LCAPs); mastectomy (skin and nipple sparing); and reconstruction with implants and pedicled myocutaneous flap, sentinel lymph node biopsy, targeted axillary dissection and axillary clearance.
Languages spoken: Cantonese/English
Clinical interests: Breast surgery, breast cancer surgery, breast augmentation, breast reduction, breast reconstruction, oncoplastic breast surgery, breast asymmetry, congenital breast deformity, mammoplasty, breast conservation surgery, DIEP flap, autologous breast reconstruction and augmentation
Languages spoken: English
Clinical interests: Breast disorders including benign and non-benign cancer, Thyroid and Parathyroid disorders, and early diagnosis of cancers (particularly in different ethnic groups).
Languages spoken: English/Punjabi
