Before and after reconstruction by reduction and lift in a 54-year-old woman with breast cancer. She was scheduled for a lumpectomy to remove her right-sided cancer followed by radiation therapy. She also required a lumpectomy on the left side, which turned out to be benign.
A combined procedure involved bilateral lumpectomy and local tissue rearrangement, filling the defect left by the lumpectomies. A local tissue rearrangement was designed as for a breast lift, keeping a robust blood supply to the nipple. Six weeks after surgery, she received right chest wall radiation for a total of five weeks.
Follow up photos are shown 6 months after surgery. Radiation therapy causes slight shrinkage of the breast in total, which is already evident. The skin discoloration from radiation therapy will gradually fade over the next year.
*All photos are actual patient photographs and are for illustrative purposes only. Individual results may vary.
