5-Some hidden choices in breast reconstruction
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/health/23beauty.html?_r=2&emc=eta1
Newspaper: The New York Times
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: December 22, 2008
Many women with breast cancer suffer from depression after undergoing mastectomies. Yet, these patients tend to find a solution to the absence of the mamas by going to a plastic surgeon. Yet, not all surgeons provide these patients with enough information about the different types of surgeries there are available nowadays for example, Gap flap, Tram flap and DIEP flap. Some of them more complicated than others but can be seen as new options to breast cancer women.
To begin with, many doctors do not know much about the new surgery techniques on the woman breast. Not all doctors are well trained to perform such complicated surgeries that take between 6 and 12 hours. These last tendencies on medicine open a door to those women who have problems to heal scars and wounds by undergoing breast reconstruction but by using fat and vessels from different parts of their bodies to replace the ones which were extirpated. This new surgeries allow the patients to have their breasts with a more natural appearance rather than a silicon.
Another point to consider is the economical side of the situation since plastic surgery is more expensive than any other technique. So many doctors take advantage of this and insist on a plastic surgery instead of the more complicated and cheaper flap surgeries. What’s more, many of these women have to pay for another breast implant every four years more or less. So, more than being a solution, it is more of a business for some specialists.
To sum up, many doctors play a bad trick on those who have the need to regain their bodies as it used to be before a breast extirpation. These unscrupulous specialists should give the adequate information about the different types of surgeries that exist for those patients with a terminal illness such as cancer.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/health/23beauty.html?_r=2&emc=eta1
Newspaper: The New York Times
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: December 22, 2008
Many women with breast cancer suffer from depression after undergoing mastectomies. Yet, these patients tend to find a solution to the absence of the mamas by going to a plastic surgeon. Yet, not all surgeons provide these patients with enough information about the different types of surgeries there are available nowadays for example, Gap flap, Tram flap and DIEP flap. Some of them more complicated than others but can be seen as new options to breast cancer women.
To begin with, many doctors do not know much about the new surgery techniques on the woman breast. Not all doctors are well trained to perform such complicated surgeries that take between 6 and 12 hours. These last tendencies on medicine open a door to those women who have problems to heal scars and wounds by undergoing breast reconstruction but by using fat and vessels from different parts of their bodies to replace the ones which were extirpated. This new surgeries allow the patients to have their breasts with a more natural appearance rather than a silicon.
Another point to consider is the economical side of the situation since plastic surgery is more expensive than any other technique. So many doctors take advantage of this and insist on a plastic surgery instead of the more complicated and cheaper flap surgeries. What’s more, many of these women have to pay for another breast implant every four years more or less. So, more than being a solution, it is more of a business for some specialists.
To sum up, many doctors play a bad trick on those who have the need to regain their bodies as it used to be before a breast extirpation. These unscrupulous specialists should give the adequate information about the different types of surgeries that exist for those patients with a terminal illness such as cancer.
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