I'd like to add my weird experience. I had double mastectomy in 2018, I had chosen DIEP procedure. Before starting that, I had to recover completely from radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Almost a year later I was ready for the procedure, but unfortunately a second cancer, unrelated to breast cancer, showed up. I had to restart treatments, and I'm still on chemo. No DIEP surgery anymore. If I had considered the possibility that something else could have happened before the DIEP surgery, I would have certainly chosen implants.