What Reconstruction Techniques Are Available After Breast Cancer Surgery?
After breast cancer surgery there are a variety of options available to the patient to reconstruct the breast. Learn more from Dr. Mark Sisco on behalf of NorthShore University HealthSystem about reconstruction surgery.
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What reconstructive options are available after breast cancer surgery? After breast cancer surgery, there
are a variety of options available to patients to reconstruct the breast. The options used depend in part on the amount of tissue
removed from the breast. If a small amount of tissue is removed from the breast, the breast can be reconstructed by rearranging
what's left over in order to retain an aesthetically pleasing shape.
If the entire breast is removed, it can be reconstructed generally using a patient's own tissue--
often from the abdomen-- or using a device such as the silicone or saline implant.
On occasion, a combination of the patient's own tissue often from the back can be combined with an implant in select cases.
The decision to use these techniques must be made in concert with your plastic surgeon and depends on several factors, including
the patient's own desires, the patient's own body, the potential for other health issues
that the patient may be facing, as well as expectations and the amount of surgery the patient is
breast cancer
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