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ABC4 News - Medical Innovations: Breast Reconstruction After Cancer

In a five-part series, ABC4 highlights “Medical Innovations that Help People Live the Healthiest Lives Possible.” Breast cancer affects one in eight women in the United States. As part of treatment, some women choose to have a mastectomy, or removal of the breast tissue. Following a mastectomy, many women are presented with options on breast reconstruction, which typically takes place during or soon after mastectomy, and in some cases, lumpectomy. Breast reconstruction also can be done many months or even years after mastectomy or lumpectomy. During reconstruction, a plastic surgeon creates a breast shape using an artificial implant (implant reconstruction), a flap of tissue from another place on your body (autologous reconstruction), or both. It’s hard to predict how women will react to losing a breast as part of the mastectomy. It’s normal for women to feel anxious, uncertain, sad, and mournful about giving up a part of their body that was one of the hallmarks of becoming a woman: a significant part of their sexuality, what made them look good in clothes, how they might have fed their babies. Following the mastectomy, women need to figure out what is best for them. Historically, women getting breast reconstruction surgery have had implants placed behind the pectoral muscle. However, as they move that muscle, it moves the implant making it uncomfortable for the woman and causing the implant to move abnormally compared to a normal breast. Now, roughly 25 percent of implants done as part of breast reconstruction are done placing the implant in front of the pectoral muscle, using a piece of cadaver skin as an under the skin sling to hold the implant in place. This new procedure allows the breast to have a more normal look and movement and allow women who are active to remain active – much like the women who ran in the Boston Marathon months after her reconstructive surgery.