If you’ve just been diagnosed in the Counties Manukau area and are about to have breast cancer surgery at Middlemore Hospital, you might be interested in participating in the LOLIPOP clinical trial. The aim is to see if an extra treatment with a local anaesthetic during and just after surgery can help prevent or reduce ongoing chronic pain that some women experience after surgery. Talk to your surgeon about this and read more about it here https://www.breastcancer.org.nz/.../lolipop-trial-recruiting