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I’m due to have an initial appointment with my surgeon soon and I am wondering what kind of questions should I ask?

I was diagnosed with BC in 2005 and had WLE, chemo and rads and am now considering having a double masectomy and reconstruction as I have recently found out that I have BRCA1 gene.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Adele

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Hi Adele

Whilst you await replies you may find our publication about reconstruction useful to read, you can do so via this link:

breastcancercare.org.uk/upload/pdf/breast_reconstruction_dec06_web_0.pdf

Best wishes
Lucy

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Im simialar position, dx last february and had 1 masectomy, diagnosed with Brca1 so looking at options for masectomy and recon but surgeon in my area on do 1 kind, i understand plastic surgeons can do some sort of skin sparing options
xx

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Hi,
I too am looking in to having a second mastectomy and yes they can do skin sparing and nipple sparing mastectomy’s. They basically make a small incision, remove the breast tissue then replace with an implant - this can be done keeping the nipple or not. For me personally I will be having my nipple removed so that I can then have two reconstructed at the same time so they are an exact match as I have had a recon but no nipple yet :slight_smile:

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Hi
I just wanted to say that I have brca2 gene so opted for bi-lateral masectomy they used muscle from my back on my right side because id already had radio i had expanders fitted in both sides i lost my right nipple cos radio killed blood suply to it so on right side my scar is were my nipple used to be but i kept my left nipple and now wish i wouldnt have cos its gone a bit to the left but my scar is only tiny just down the under left side i was done by a lady called claire rogers at docaster dri fantastic go back in 3 months for nipple recon