Job Title
Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon
Location
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Specialty
- Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
Biography
Mr Chong graduated from Glasgow University and received his early surgical training at the West of Scotland Basic Surgical Programme. In 2003, he secured a clinical research fellow position at St George’s Hospital, London in which his research focussed on the role of growth factor receptors in breast cancer biology. His findings have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and culminated in a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of London.
After that, Mr Chong was accepted into the Southwest Thames rotation in General Surgery in which the later part of the six-year training was concentrated on breast and reconstructive surgery mainly at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London and the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. After completing his training, he pursued a fellowship with renown breast and plastic surgeons such as Professor Werner Audretsch in Dusseldorf and Dr Emmanuel Delay in Lyon.
Mr Chong has experience managing both benign breast diseases and breast cancers. He has a postgraduate certificate from the University of London in Breast Ultrasonography which he incorporates into his practice, particularly in his wide local excision operations to reduce cancer margin involvement rates. He regularly employs oncoplastic approaches when performing breast conserving surgery. In his reconstructions, Mr Chong incorporates the Acellular Dermal Matrix (ADM) in his implant-only reconstructions and is also trained in performing Latissimus-Dorsi reconstructions, nipple reconstructions and symmetrising reduction or augmentation procedures.
His current main research interest includes the use of mammographic density in stratifying breast cancer risk and reducing surgical site infection in breast surgery. He is a keen advocate of breast cancer research. Outside surgery, his interests include travelling, cycling and gardening.
