Breast reconstruction: à la carte not table d’hote

摘要: NICE guidelines emphasise the need for breast cancer patients undergoing mastectomy to be offered all appropriate options immediate reconstruction. In majority of hospitals this is not happening. Patients are being reconstruction technique which their surgeon has been trained and many never meet an oncoplastic discuss wide range that available. This means have sub-optimal reconstructions often using implants may subsequently replaced incompatible with post-operative radiotherapy. will better served by a few high throughput, quality centres specialising in tailoring right woman who needs rather than present system having variable available ubiquitously.