Welcome to Monash Breast Services

Southern Health has an established Breast Service inside two clinical programs: Women’s Health and Cancer & Palliative Care Programs. Services are mainly located at Monash Medical Centre’s Moorabbin campus, are predominantly part of the public health system and provide advice, assessment and treatment for women with all types of breast problems.

Breast Services consist of units, wards and services with many specialist health care professionals - medical, nursing and allied health, working in teams to provide the best possible treatment and care.

Our service is patient focused and benefits greatly from the support and advice of an active consumer reference group.

As one of the State’s leading units in clinical care and research Monash Breast Services offer the highest standards of care in a setting that also addresses women’s needs for emotional and social support.

Our services include:

• mammographic screening
• other diagnostic tests
• care of women at high risk of breast cancer
• cancer genetic services
• surgical inpatient services
• multidisciplinary cancer care
• lymphoedema clinic
• counselling and support

The Breast Service has been supported by the BreastCare project http://breastcare.health.vic.gov.au/  and promotes continuity of care and takes a multidisciplinary team approach to patient care.

Monash BreastScreen and a private breast clinic, Monash Breast Clinic, at 212 Clayton Road, Clayton provides screening and diagnostic services.

Treatment services following diagnosis of breast cancer include surgery with postoperative recovery on Ward 1 Breast Surgery Unit (Women's Health Ward).

Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, co-located at Monash Medical Centre Moorabbin, provides radiotherapy. Chemotherapy treatment is offered to women as a day procedure in the Chemotherapy Day Unit at Monash Medical Centre Moorabbin. For those with advanced breast disease, admission to the oncology ward (Ward 2) is provided.