Can I have reconstructions after a lumpectomy. I have smallish breasts and it has taken nearly a third of my left breast.
Can I have reconstructions after a lumpectomy. I have smallish breasts and it has taken nearly a third of my left breast.
Hello and thanks for posting,
I can appreciate your thoughts. Breast reconstruction does usually involve using significant plastic surgery techniques, and can involve moving muscle and fat tissue. It is generally used for larger breast surgery, and not lumpectomies. There is information about breast reconstruction on the Breast Cancer Now website.
Hopefully you will get an opportunity to discuss this with your breast surgeon, or your breast cancer hospital clinical nurse specialist.
Best wishes,
Vanda