If you loose your breast due to breast cancer can you?!


Question: If you loose your breast due to breast cancer can you.?
get breast implants after it goes into remission.?Health Question & Answer


Answers:
Yes, breast reconstruction is an option after mastectomy. Sometimes it takes place at the time of surgery, but it can be months or years later.

It doesn't always involve implants; this link gives information about the types of reconstruction, and further links to details:

http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/su...

Personally I decided against reconstruction. I felt - and still feel - that after all I'd been through I didn't want further surgery unless it was necessary, and I didn't want to spend any of whatever time I had left recovering from major surgery. And breast reconstruction is major surgery - a much more bigger and lengthier operation than mastectomy, with a longer recovery time.Health Question & Answer

Sure you can and the government will pay for it any time you decide to have it done (from what I have been told).

My wife had her mastectomy two months ago and she is now taking Taxol and then will begin radiation. She is taking a year off before she decides if she want to go through more painful surgery.

It does get tiring. Good luck to you!Health Question & Answer

Yes. And the other person is right. It could be 3 months or 3 years from your diagnosis, insurance has to cover it. I had the TRAM about a year after diagnosis.Health Question & Answer

It really depends on how the surgery was done. If it is not done properly then it cannot be doneHealth Question & Answer

Yes. Reconstructive surgery is common after mastectomy.Health Question & Answer



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