Breast cancer patients need to have part of their breasts removed during treatment, which affects the patient's quality of life. Breast reconstruction surgery is generally chosen after surgery. Breast reconstruction after breast cancer surgery is a safe and feasible routine surgery in the field of plastic surgery. In the past ten years, this technology has been widely accepted by European and American women after breast cancer surgery, and plastic surgeons have designed a variety of surgical methods for it. However, in my country, not many women undergo breast reconstruction after breast cancer surgery. Due to 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.

Selection of timing for breast reconstruction

1. Immediate breast reconstruction: refers to breast reconstruction at the same time after mastectomy for breast cancer. When the breast lump is small and there are no palpable enlarged lymph nodes, patients undergoing modified radical mastectomy for breast cancer are more suitable for immediate breast reconstruction.

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

All breast reconstruction patients must be physically able to tolerate the surgery, be emotionally stable, have no mental or psychological disorders, and have no malignant tumors in the contralateral breast.

Contents of breast reconstruction

1. Breast reconstruction must first repair the missing skin. Skin loss repair methods can use skin expanders to expand the skin and increase the skin area. Skin flap transposition techniques can also be used, such as local rotation flaps, latissimus dorsi muscle flaps, rectus abdominis muscle flaps or microsurgery. Free flaps and other transpositions can be used to increase local skin and tissue.

2. After breast skin repair, the breast needs to be shaped into a hemispherical shape.

3. Nipple and areola reconstruction.