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Bilateral Mastectomy with nipple & nerve sparing
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Sep 30 5:24pm | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
So, my understanding is that Mayo has been doing the nipple sparing for about 10 years. I’m not sure how long the nerve grafting has been done there. As for the nerve supplying feeling to the breast, it is really hit or miss on if it works. The only downside that I saw was that it takes about 10-15 min extra for each breast in the surgery so a little more time in the OR. I went for it as I didn’t think there would be any additional risk so why not try? That was my logic.
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The "why not" is that nipples can get their own cancer, it's rare but does happen. Pagets, it's a type of cancer that affects the nipple, is slow growing but it's still cancer. I know, because I had it for a number of years, had breast cancer in 2005 & had a lumpectomy - this year, when I was scheduled to have the Pagets taken care of after putting it off for a number of years, found that cancer had also returned to that breast. I had a double mastectomy 3 months ago & did not want the additional pain and recovery time that reconstruction would require. Good luck on a speedy recovery.