Krishna Clough

Krishna Clough
Dr CLOUGH is a leader in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery, having been instrumental in its creation and subsequently developing the classification of oncoplastic surgery techniques which is considered a reference paper in this field. He spent more than 15 years in the French public system, and was the Chief of Surgery at the Institut Curie in 1996 at the age of 38. In 2004, Dr CLOUGH left the Institut Curie to create the Paris Breast Centre, France’s first Breast Centre, which now hosts 6 breast surgeons and a multidisciplinary team of 20 physicians dedicated to the care of women with breast cancer, but also benign breast disease, and cosmetic breast surgery. The Paris Breast Centre is one of the leading institutions in France for treatment and education with widely reputable international fellowships for young surgeons early on in their career and experienced surgeons from all over the world wishing to undertake oncoplastic training.
Dr CLOUGH is a dually qualified surgical oncologist and a plastic surgeon, having specialised early in breast surgery. He has focused on offering patients the benefits of a multidisciplinary approach whilst limiting the side effects of each of the treatments applied. His clinical research aims at developing a global surgical expertise for breast surgery, from non-palpable breast cancer to all types of breast reconstruction, including all possible surgical procedures for diagnosis, treatment and reconstructive surgery of the breast. In the late 1980’s Dr CLOUGH developed the concept of oncoplastic surgery for breast conservation, integrating plastic surgery techniques at the time of the tumour resection, in order to extend breast conservation possibilities and reduce postoperative sequelae. He published the first papers on oncoplastic surgery techniques and results in the early 1990’s, demonstrating that oncoplastic procedures could extend the scope of breast surgery, which was initially limited to wide local excision or mastectomy. Fully integrated into a multidisciplinary treatment, the concept of oncoplastic surgery is now spreading worldwide in the field of breast oncology, and is considered as one of the main recent advances in breast cancer surgery.
Dr CLOUGH has published over 160 articles in international peer reviewed journals and continues his clinical research in the busiest private practice in France. He has been invited to present in all major international conferences and represented France in numerous international working groups (consensus conferences), whose works have been the object of reference publications. Dr CLOUGH was awarded the Umberto Veronesi European Institute of Oncology award in 2015, for his contribution to breast cancer treatment and education. He is currently the Vice President of the French Society of Senology.