Mr Andrea Bille is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Kings College University, London. He specialises in the treatment of thoracic conditions and in surgery and sees patients privately for a range of conditions:

• Lung cancer: early stage and locally advanced (surgical treatment)
• Lung metastasis (metastasectomy and limited resection)
• Chest wall tumour (resection and reconstruction)
• Pericardial effusion for cancer (pericardial window)
• Malignant pleural Mesothelioma: diagnostic and radical surgery (pleural biopsy and pleurectomy decortication,)
• Emphysema and Lung volume reduction surgery
• Pectus deformities
• Thymoma: surgery and multimodality treatment
• Chest trauma and rib fractures: surgical management
• Pneumothorax (primary and secondary)
• Interstitial Lung Disease (Lung Biopsy)
• Pleural effusion (benign and malignant)
• Neurogenic tumours in the chest
• Anterior mediastinal mass (diagnosis and resection)
• Mediastinal adenopathy (biopsy, mediastinoscopy)
• Diaphragmatic hernia (repair and diaphragmatic plication)
• Retrosternal thyroid goitre
• Endobronchial lesion (rigid bronchoscopy and debulking of tumour, biopsy, stenting)

Mr Bille qualified in 2005 from the University of Turin and trained in Cardiothoracic Surgery in Italy and at Guy’s Hospital, London. He undertook a clinical fellowship at Guy’s Hospital focusing on mesothelioma surgery and minimally invasive thoracic surgery for the treatment of lung cancer and benign conditions.

In 2013 he was appointed as a consultant at the National Institute of Cancer in Milan, focusing on surgical treatment of lung cancer, thoracic sarcoma and mediastinal tumour which require extensive resection and complex reconstruction.

In 2014/15 Mr Bille undertook a clinical fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the US and trained in thoracoscopy and robotic surgery for the treatment of thoracic malignancies and advance technique with complex reconstruction for extensive thoracic malignancies. He completed his PhD in 2015 which focussed surgical treatment of mesothelioma.

Mr Bille has published extensively and presented at conferences worldwide. He is Associate Editor of the thoracic section of the Tumori Journal and the Journal of Thoracic Disease.

Mr Bille is involved a number of research projects on lung cancer, thymoma and mesothelioma analysing the role of surgery and new multimodality approaches. He is a member of the thymoma and mesothelioma international staging committee and he is chair of the mesothelioma database of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS).

Memberships

• International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)
• European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS)
• International Thymic Malignancies Interest Group (ITMIG)
• General Medical Council
• British Medical Association
• The Royal College of Radiologists
• Royal College of Physicians

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Contact Details

To arrange an appointment to see Mr Bille please call 020 3219 3599

Or email mrbille@independentsurgeons.org.uk

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