Dr Andrew KiuBreast, Endocrine and General Surgeon
Dr Andrew Kiu is a Breast, Endocrine and General surgeon. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and a member of ANZ Endocrine Surgeons and BreastSurg ANZ.
A graduate of the University of Adelaide medical school, he completed his General Surgery Fellowship in South Australia and Surrey, in the United Kingdom.
He has had further post-fellowship training in Breast and Endocrine Surgery at Flinders Medical Centre and The Alfred, in Melbourne, culminating in the Endocrine Surgery University in Baltimore, USA, as part of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons fellowship.
He has a strong interest in breast and thyroid cancers, and is one of a small number of surgeons in Adelaide performing retroperitoneal keyhole surgery to remove the adrenal gland.
As well as consulting at our main rooms in Toorak Gardens, Dr Kiu also consults at Flinders Private and Morphett Vale. Please call the main rooms to book an appointment.
Special interests:
- Breast cancer including surveillance
- Infusaport insertion for chemotherapy
- Strong family history of breast cancer, and prophylactic surgery
- Benign breast disease
- Thyroid cancer
- Thyroid nodules and Graves’ disease
- Parathyroid disease
- Adrenal gland disorders
COVID-19 Update
At this stage vaccination status will not compromise your care nor preclude us from seeing you.
As South Australia makes changes to the movement of people in and out of the state, the Breast & Endocrine Centre continues to focus on your safety.
Below are the additional measures we have put in place due to changes to boarder restrictions
Anyone with COVID or close contact cannot enter the centre for 14 days and must have a negative PCR.
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status will be required to ensure we take the necessary measures to protect our staff and patients.
If you have any COVID-19 symptoms you must undertake a COVID-19 PCR test and receive a negative result within 48 - 72 hours prior to your appointment. You will be required to provide evidence of a negative test prior to / at their appointment
If you have symptoms of COVID-19 and have not undertaken a COVID-19 PCR test prior to your appointment you will have your appointment / surgery cancelled.
For surgery at any Adelaide private hospital, you may be required to undertake a RAT on day of admission at the hospital concerned.
Patients from interstate need to follow the SAPOL COVID Directives - https://www.covid-19.sa.gov.au/travel/entrycheck-sa and be aware that all hospitals have their own admission requirements which may differ to SA Health advice. Being that hospitals are high risk areas there may be some requirement to wait for surgery as directed.
All support persons must be double vaccinated and will be required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination at the appointment
In addition:
- Maximum of one support person if new diagnosis of cancer / or needs assistance due to disability arranged prior,( this support person must wait outside until called in by the Doctor) otherwise patients to attend on their own.
- No children (under the age of 12 years old, except breast feeding babies) are permitted to come to the centre
- Surgical masks are to be worn at all times whilst in the centre – no cloth masks
- Social distancing must be maintained