Bowral Surgeons

23/07/2025

The Simulated Patient Program comprises of volunteers from the community who act as patients for our medical students. The program ensures that our students ...

09/04/2025

We are seeking a medical secretary to join our surgical practice on a part-time basis. Previous medical or allied health reception experience would be highly regarded. To enquire about the position contact 48617061 .
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21/02/2025

There aren’t many surgeon couples around, let alone surgeon couples who practise in the same specialty and work in the same hospital. Despite this, we don’t operate together that often, but we make a pretty good team when we do.

14/02/2025

Artificial Intelligence Polyp Detection has arrived in the Southern Highlands.
Flat and small precancerous bowel polyps can be hard to recognise during colonoscopy and may sometimes be missed. Polyp AI identifies areas of the bowel wall that may contain a polyp, based on a comparison to thousands of polyp images. Your surgeon can then inspect the area and confirm the presence of a polyp. Bowel cancers develop from precancerous polyps, so any improvements in polyp detection should help to reduce the rates of bowel cancer.

10/11/2024

From July this year, The National Bowel Screening Program extended eligibility. If you are between 45 - 49 years old you can now request a free bowel screening test kit via the link below. A Faecal Occult Blood test can identify small amounts of blood in bowel motion, helping to detect bowel cancer at early stage, before it causes symptoms.

The National Bowel Cancer Screening Program offers a free, simple test for eligible Australians to reduce illness and death from bowel cancer. - Eligible people aged 45 to 49 can request their first free bowel cancer screening kit be mailed to them using this form. - Eligible people aged 50 to 74 wi...

20/09/2024

Our phones are not working at the moment. We are still available via email for any urgent enquires. Everything should be back to normal by Monday.

05/09/2024

A Sentinel Node Biopsy is a procedure used to assess cancer spread from breast cancers and some melanomas. The sentinel node is the first lymph node (or nodes) to which a cancer spreads. On the day prior to surgery, a small amount of radioactive material is administered near the cancer to track the sentinel node. To confirm the sentinel node's location, a blue dye is injected around the cancer immediately before surgery, causing the sentinel node to turn blue. During surgery, we look for the blue dye and utilize a device that detects radiation to locate the sentinel node. This procedure allows us to determine the extent of cancer spread without the need for extensive lymph node removal. In this case the sentinel node biopsy was for melanoma.

24/12/2023