Miss Veronica Grassi

Profile

Veronica is a Consultant Oncoplastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgeon who practices in the NHS and in the private sector. She is currently a substantive Consultant and Clinical Lead of the Breast Surgery Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, where she treats screening and symptomatic patients with breast cancer. She is a board certified Oncoplastic Breast surgeon with 15 years’ experience and over 5000 operations performed. Her passion for innovation and progresses of research in the field and her wish to always be updated with the most recent procedures have resulted in a high level of expertise in her field.

Qualifications:
Veronica graduated and obtained the Specialty in General Surgery at the prestigious University of Milan. During her training she spent time at the CHBT in Guadeloupe and Hopital Jean Verdier in Paris, as well as training in some of the best hospitals in Italy (National Institute of Cancer, Policlinico di Milano, Modena liver transplant centre).
After moving to the UK in 2009, Veronica continued her training in Oncoplastic, attending hospitals such as Guy’s and St Thomas, Broomfield and Queen Elizabeth In Birmingham and Burton where she obtained the fellowship in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery (OBS).
She became Consultant in OBS in 2014 at King’s College Hospital, before moving to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 2016, where she’s been Service Lead of the Breast Unit.
Her training and career path allowed her to gain a vast experience and to develop excellent surgical skills building on her innate dexterity.
Throughout her career Veronica has maintained a keen curiosity and open mind in order to offer to her patients the latest and best treatment. She always compares her practice with the best professionals around the world; visiting international centres and exchanging skills and knowledge with her peers. She keeps herself updated and she regularly attends to national and international meeting and conferences.
She has a keen interest in teaching and innovation and enjoys clinical research, with published articles in peer reviewed journal and national and international presentation. In her Trust she is principal investigator in few national trials, LORIS, TeAM, Ibra.

Services offered:
Miss Grassi follows her patient throughout the whole journey from the diagnosis to the discussion of the best options until the regular follow up when required.
Veronica offers her patients a collaborative approach, putting each patient at ease and in the condition to choose the best and safest surgical procedures that minimise the physical and psychological impact of the disease. She is particularly interested in breast conserving surgery. She also offers breast lipomodelling, technique which she implemented while in France at the institute du Sein.

Procedures:
• Simple mastectomy
• Skin sparing-Skin reducing mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction with implants and acellular dermal matrix (ADM), dermal sling reconstruction with implants or without (Goldilocks mastectomy).
• Therapeutic mammoplasty: round blocks, wise pattern, Lejour, Grisotti, Lateral mammoplasty, bat wing, starfish central excision.
• Licap and AIcap flaps
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy-axillary sampling and axillary node clearance
• Surgery for benign breast disease: excision of fibroadenoma, Total duct excision
• Diagnostic excisional biopsy.

Veronica is trained in Intra-operative radiotherapy which she currently offers to selected patient within the Targit B trial, in her NHS base. She promoted the use of Magseed and Magnetic dye to identify respectively an occult breast lesion and the sentinel lymph node.