About Your Multi-Disciplinary Team

The purpose of a multi-disciplinary team is to bring together the expertise of different healthcare professionals in order to give a quality assessment of a patient’s diagnosis and to tailor the best possible treatment plan accordingly.

All patients with a cancer diagnosis will also be discussed in a Multi-Disciplinary Team meeting which takes place weekly.

This team may include:

Breast care nurse – a nurse who provides information and support to people diagnosed with breast cancer
Chemotherapy nurse – trained to give chemotherapy drugs
Clinical oncologist – a doctor who specialises in treating cancer with radiotherapy alone or radiotherapy and cancer drugs
Medical oncologist – a doctor who specialises in cancer drugs
Pathologist – a doctor who examines the tissue and cells removed during a biopsy or surgery
Radiologist – a doctor who specialises in the use of x-rays, ultrasound and scans to diagnose and treat disease
Research nurse – who can discuss the option of taking part in clinical trials
Surgeon- a doctor who is a specialist in carrying out operations
Therapeutic radiographer – trained to give radiotherapy

Mr Agrawal works alongside an excellent team of radiologists, mammographers, oncologists and breast care nurses to ensure his patients are given the best possible care and feel fully supported throughout their experience.

I have just found out I have breast cancer so my journey has just started but I couldn’t praise Mr Agrawal and his team highly enough.

– Private Patient at Spire Portsmouth Hospital

Mr Avi Agrawal

As a leading Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, and Head of the Breast Department at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Mr Agrawal carries out diagnostic fast track breast clinics and a full range of breast surgery, including sentinel node biopsy with intra-operative analysis, oncoplastic surgery and breast reconstruction. He also undertakes treatment of soft tissue lumps, lipomas, cysts and skin cancer surgery.

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