
Dr Yazan Masannat
MBBS, MRCSI, MRCSEd, DBRM, FEBS, FRCSEd, MD
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
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Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon
Aberdeen Breast Unit, Ward 315
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, AB25 2ZN
Biography
Yazan Masannat is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon working in Aberdeen, Scotland/UK and a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and the University of East Anglia in England. After completing his basic surgical training in Wales and obtaining the membership exams of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland he Moved to England. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Leeds and then moved to the South East Thames Sector of the London Deanery where he completed his Higher Surgical training. He trained in some of the best units in the world including Guy’s Hospitalin London and obtained the highly competitive and prestigious National Oncoplastic Fellowship at Mid-Essex Hospitals(St Andrews Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery) followed by a further fellowship in the world-renowned Royal Marsden Hospital in London. His main clinical interest is breast conservation through level one and level two oncoplastic techniques and Breast Reconstruction.
Currently he is actively involved in research exploring new MRI and imaging technologies in breast cancer, and also looking at the biology of the rarer types of breast pathology with the research teams at the University of Aberdeen.
Teaching is an important part of Yazan’s practice. Locally he teaches at the University of Aberdeenand nationally he is a Tutor on the Master of Surgery in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Program by the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. He also designed a teaching website www.oncoplasticsurgeons.comon breast surgery in collaboration with colleagues from the UK, Europe, The States and India. Some of the best-known names in breast and plastic surgery are taking part in this project.
He is also a member of the communications team and a co-opted member of the education and training committee with the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS) in the UK and also a member of the education and training committee with the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) and an examiner at the European Board in Breast Surgery and the European Board in Surgical Oncology.
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- Research
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Research Overview
MRI Scan in Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer
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Teaching Responsibilities
Co-Lead of the Medical Law and Ethics Course
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Text mining and word embedding for classification of decision making variables in breast cancer surgery
European Journal of Surgical OncologyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2022.03.002
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Peri-tumoural spatial distribution of lipid composition and tubule formation in breast cancer
BMC Cancer, vol. 22, 285Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Role of redo-Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients With Prior Ipsilateral Breast Cancer Surgery
Clinical Breast CancerContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clbc.2022.01.012
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The relationship between cardiac dosimetry and tumour quadrant location in left sided whole breast and chest wall adjuvant radiotherapy
Breast Disease, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 67-74Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/BD-201025
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The ESSO core curriculum committee update on surgical oncology
European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. e1-e30Contributions to Journals: Review articlesIntra-tumoural lipid composition and lymphovascular invasion in breast cancer via non-invasive magnetic resonance spectroscopy
European Radiology, vol. 31, pp. 3703–3711Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDiagnosis and management of chyle leak following axillary dissection
Surgeon, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 360-364Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surge.2019.12.001
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Incidence of male breast cancer in Scotland over a twenty-five-year period (1992 - 2017)
European Journal of Surgical Oncology, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1546-1550Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLactate concentration in breast cancer using advanced magnetic resonance spectroscopy
British Journal of Cancer, vol. 123, no. 2, pp. 261-267Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMultifocal and multicentric breast cancer, is it time to think again?
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 62-66Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1308/rcsann.2019.0109
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