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Mastectomy and breast reconstruction pros and cons?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Apr 23 12:26am | Replies (228)

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@mari

What is your PS? Fat can b taken from hips also.

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PS- Plastic Surgeon. When I discussed autologous with my PS they looked at my abdomen and said there wasn’t enough tissue. I will be having lypofills about 4 months after final implant surgery to create slope and fine tune any areas that need a little fill. Those will be taken from my love handles, inner thighs. (Can’t complain about that!) Interesting thing is that they estimate only 25% of the fat cells they remove ends up successfully transferring to the breast. So it may require multiple lypofills to achieve the final result. The nurse mentioned that only one may be covered by insurance so I need to check in to that...