Miss Christina Choy

• Specialty: consultant oncoplastic and reconstructive breast surgeon with particular expertise in breast cancer surgery, breast reconstruction, breast screening and breast cancer risk assessment

• Conditions seen: breast cancer, and breast symptoms including breast pain, breast lumps, nipple discharge and mastitis

• Tests, treatments and procedures: private enhanced breast screening (3D mammogram), breast triple assessment, breast cancer risk assessment, family history clinic, genetic testing, sentinel node biopsy with dual localisation, wire-guided and wireless lesion localisation, breast conservation surgery using oncoplastic technique, mastectomy including skin-sparing and nipple-sparing mastectomy, breast reconstruction, fat transfer, breast reduction, breast augmentation and breast uplift

• Often consulted by patients with: a breast lump, breast pain, nipple discharge or mastitis; a breast cancer diagnosis requiring surgery and reconstruction; or a family history of breast cancer prompting risk assessment and screening

• Patient ages seen: 18+

• Also: in full-time private practice since 2017, following 13 years as a substantive NHS consultant breast surgeon; research into breast cancer in young women and into barriers to early diagnosis among Afro-Caribbean and other ethnic minority groups - work which was presented in Parliament

• Language: English

Miss Christina Choy is a consultant oncoplastic and reconstructive breast surgeon at Welbeck's Women's Health centre in London, specialising in breast cancer surgery, breast reconstruction, breast screening and breast cancer risk assessment. She assesses breast symptoms including breast pain, breast lumps, nipple discharge and mastitis and offers enhanced breast screening with 3D mammography and breast triple assessment. For patients concerned with inherited risk she runs a family history clinic providing breast cancer risk assessment and genetic testing.

Miss Choy performs breast-conserving surgery using oncoplastic techniques to remove cancer while reshaping the remaining breast tissue. Where a mastectomy is needed, she offers skin-sparing and nipple-sparing procedures with immediate reconstruction, retaining the breast skin and, where possible, the nipple. Her reconstructive work also includes fat transfer. Miss Choy also performs sentinel node biopsy to assess whether breast cancer has spread to the lymph nodes in the armpit. She uses wire-guided or newer wireless localisation techniques to identify abnormalities that cannot be felt, helping guide their surgical removal. Alongside her cancer surgery and reconstructive work, she offers breast reduction, augmentation and uplift procedures.

Miss Choy has worked in the private sector since 2003 and moved into full-time private practice in 2017. Before this, she spent 13 years as a consultant breast surgeon at Homerton University Hospital, working within a multidisciplinary network shared with St Bartholomew's and Newham General Hospitals.

Miss Choy qualified in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1986 and undertook postgraduate surgical training across three continents, including in Hong Kong, Australia and the United Kingdom. Her training included placements at St Bartholomew's Hospital and The Royal Marsden Hospital.