Breast cancer patients have to remove part of their breasts during treatment, which affects their quality of life. Generally, breast reconstruction surgery is chosen after surgery. Breast reconstruction after breast cancer surgery is a safe and feasible routine operation in plastic surgery. In recent ten years, this technique has been widely accepted by women after breast cancer surgery in Europe and America, and plastic surgeons have designed a variety of surgical methods for this purpose. However, in China, there are still few women undergoing breast reconstruction after breast cancer surgery. Because of the importance and necessity of surgery, it can be predicted that this medical treatment will be accepted by more breast cancer patients in the near future.

Timing of breast reconstruction

1, Immediate breast reconstruction: refers to breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer. When the breast lump is small and there are no swollen lymph nodes, it is more suitable for breast reconstruction immediately after modified radical mastectomy.

2. Second-stage breast reconstruction: Second-stage breast reconstruction refers to breast reconstruction after 3 to 6 months of chemotherapy after radical mastectomy; Or breast reconstruction 6- 12 months after radiotherapy.

All breast reconstruction patients must be physically tolerant to surgery, emotionally stable, free from mental and psychological obstacles, and free from malignant tumors in the contralateral breast.

Contents of breast reconstruction

1, breast reconstruction must first repair skin defects. The skin defect can be repaired by skin expander to expand the skin and increase the skin area, or by skin flap transposition technology, such as local rotation flap, latissimus dorsi flap, rectus abdominis flap or microsurgical free flap to increase local skin and tissue.

2. After breast skin repair, it is necessary to shape the breast into a hemisphere.

3. Reconstruction of nipple and areola.