Miss Fiona MacNeill
MB BS FRCS MD
Title: Consultant Breast Surgeon
Specialty 1: Breast Surgery
Specialty 1 Specialisation: Breast reconstruction, oncoplastic surgery
Clinical Interests: All aspects of benign and cancerous breast disease diagnostics and management but especially sentinel node biopsy and oncoplastic surgery
Pen Picture: Miss Fiona MacNeill has been a specialist consultant breast surgeon since 1996. Her main interest is oncoplastic breast surgery - that is achieving the best outcomes in cancer surgery and breast appearance. As Breast Tutor at the Royal College of surgeons she has lectured widely in the UK and Europe and was a founder of the first national oncoplastic training programme. She has successfully delivered the national sentinel node training programme NEW START. She acts in an advisory capacity to a variety of Department of Health committees to optimise breast services and plan future cancer strategy. She is actively engaged in local and national research trials.
Languages Spoken: English
Regular Cromwell Clinics: No
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Year Qualified: 1983
Memberships: ABS @ BASO, BMA, MWF
NHS Hospital: Royal Marsden
Additional Posts: Breast Tutor, Royal College Surgeons England
Research Interests: Surgical education and training, oncoplastic surgery neoadjuvant endocrine treatment to shrink cancers to allow breast conservation
Published Papers: • MacNeill FA et al :The UK sentinel lymph node biopsy training programme 2004-2006 Setting standards in surgical training
• MacNeill FA et al Testing the feasibility of intra-operative sentinel node imprint cytology
• N. Pore, V. D'arcy, F. Docquier, S. Chandrasekharan, FA. Macneill, E. Klenova BORIS (Brother of Regulator of Imprinting Sites) as a possible new Blood Marker for Breast Cancer
• IBIS - Investigators long-term results of tamoxifen prophylaxis for breast cancer 96-month follow-up of the randomized IBIS-I trial
• The British Familial Breast Cancer Group. Results from screening women with a family history of breast cancer.