Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Regrowing The Breast Tissue After Mastectomy

While several scientist are focused on finding ways to cure breast cancer,
there are those that endeavour to find ways to regrow a disfigured breast
after a mastectomy or lumpectomy. A lumpectomy is a breast conserving surgery which usually is followed by radiation therapy.
Australian scientists will be making trial runs to try and regrow the breast after a woman have had surgery on her breast. Presently,women only have the option to carry out a breast reconstruction and implants
after they have had surgery on their breast. This procedure calls for the insertion of the women’s fat tissue in a chamber ,shaped similar to the women's breast and then connecting a blood vessel to the tissue.
. The procedure follows nature’s abhorrence of void such that when the chamber is empty the breast tissues will grow in the void space..
Using a biodegradable chamber means the chamber will dissolve once
the tissue have grown.
While there is joy of such improvements in breast reconstruction, more importantly is the prevention and or cure of the disease.With the availability of this procedure presumably more women would prefer a mastectomy as against lumpectomy which would usually be followed by radiotherapy treatment.
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