What bra should I wear after breast cancer surgery?

You may be wearing a supportive bra that closes in the front or you may have a binder wrapped around your chest to help keep the dressing in place. If you have one of these supports continue to wear it until your surgeon says you may remove it.

After your breast cancer surgery you will either be wrapped with a bias surgical dressing or placed immediately into a compression brassiere. In my practice, our breast surgery patients are always wrapped with 8-inch bias wrap dressings, gauze sponges, and steri-strips to the incisions. On the first post-operative day, the dressings are removed and a Dr. Linderbra is placed that allows both compression and comfort to the patient.