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How Successful Is Breast Reconstruction?

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Non-Disseminated Breast Cancer

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Radiat Oncol))

Abstract

Twenty years ago the controversy over breast re-construction was not whether or not it was successful, but whether it should be done at all. The reluctance two decades ago to consider doing breast reconstruction was due to fear that breast reconstruction of any sort would either hide or promote recurrence. Another reason, seldom discussed and rarely mentioned, was the attitude that the patient should be thankful to be alive and should not put herself at hazard by undergoing unnecessary surgery motivated by vanity — a sentiment patently punitive and sexist.

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  1. Division of Plastic Surgery, Beth Israel Hospital, USA

    Robert M. Goldwyn M.D. (Head, Clinical Professor of Surgery)

  2. Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Robert M. Goldwyn M.D. (Head, Clinical Professor of Surgery)

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  1. Department of Radiotherapy, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, 77030, Houston, TX, USA

    Gilbert H. Fletcher M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Therapeutic Radiology - Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota, UMHC Harvard Street at East River Parkway, Box 494, 55455-0110, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Seymour H. Levitt M.D. (Head and Professor) (Head and Professor)

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Goldwyn, R.M. (1993). How Successful Is Breast Reconstruction?. In: Fletcher, G.H., Levitt, S.H. (eds) Non-Disseminated Breast Cancer. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84593-2_15

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