“Breast reconstruction is a restoration of a woman’s form and her sense of self,” says Dr. Andrea Pusic, Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
There are many different options and techniques available for reconstruction – from implants to using a woman’s own tissue – and choices about when to get the reconstruction – meaning immediate (at the time of mastectomy) or delayed (which could be months, or even years later). All these different techniques, are “getting close to that goal of letting a woman be herself again” and putting the cancer behind her, says Dr. Pusic.
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