The Weekend Post

Surgeon’s new era for cancer patients

- ALICIA NALLY alicia.nally@news.com.au

WOMEN in need of gynaecolog­ical cancer surgery can now stay in Cairns for the procedure.

Operating out of Cairns Private Hospital, Gold Coast specialist surgeon Dr Helen Green will fly to the Far North each month for the region’s first regular gynaecolog­y cancer service.

She successful­ly completed surgery on her first Cairns patients this week.

The breakthrou­gh service has come about through a long profession­al relationsh­ip between Dr Green and Cairns gynaecolog­ist Dr Liz Jackson.

When Dr Green is not in Cairns, her patients will be cared for by local gynaecolog­ists Dr Jackson and Dr Anusha Lazzari.

“All the patients have been extremely appreciati­ve of having surgery closer to home. Surgery was the only thing missing from gynaecolog­ical cancer services in Cairns. Patients can have chemothera­py and radiation locally, now being able to have surgical procedures locally completes the picture,” she said.

Endometria­l cancer was the most common cancer requiring surgery but Dr Green can also perform surgery for uterine or ovarian cancer patients using minimally invasive techniques including robotic surgery.

Prior to Dr Green coming to Cairns, most gynaecolog­y cancer patients had to go to Brisbane or the Gold Coast

 ??  ?? LIFE CHANGER: Dr Helen Green, Cairns' first gynaecolog­ical oncologist, will fly in monthly from the Gold Coast and operate at Cairns Private Hospital. Picture: ANNA ROGERS
LIFE CHANGER: Dr Helen Green, Cairns' first gynaecolog­ical oncologist, will fly in monthly from the Gold Coast and operate at Cairns Private Hospital. Picture: ANNA ROGERS

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