Hi everyone, I would really appreciate your advice. We’ve just had the final meeting with our surgeon which confused us somewhat. In a few days time I am having a lumpectomy and although my lump has shrunk a lot with chemo, a recent biopsy has shown there are still some cancer cells inside. So now they are going to take out a bigger lump than they had hoped (they’re still very positive about it being cured though). Since this result, my surgeon has gone from saying my boobs will look the same as each other to saying they will look quite different. He did not raise the option of reconstruction and when we did, he initially said it wasn’t possible, then did a strange switcheroo and said that it was! This really confused us. He is now arranging for us to see a plastic surgeon but this is only happening very last minute as my op is in a few days and we need to make decisions fast. I appreciate my boob is going to be different, but I am trying to get a sense of what is reasonable to hope for - everything I have read seems to say that breast reconstruction after a lumpectomy is a routine thing to expect. I am going to have radiotherapy next, so I am unsure if it makes sense to have reconstruction at the same time as my lumpectomy or in a year’s time after radiotherapy has had it’s own potentially shrinking effects. We’ll be discussing this all with the plastic surgeon soon, I hope, but it would be great to hear any thoughts or experiences you have. Thank you!