Ottawa - Dr. H. Lee, Plastic Surgeon, QCH

Navigatingthru

I've been diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer, one invasive ductile carcinoma, the other non-invasive. I've met with a surgeon. Dr. Gauthier, and will be having bilateral masectomy early September. Accompanying him was a plastic surgeon, Dr. H. Lee, for discussion on immediate reconstruction, something I seem to be a good candidate for.

Is anyone familiar with either of these doctors and their work? I'm looking for some feedback. I believe Dr. Gauthier has lots of experience and a good reputation. However, Dr. Lee is fairly new and has only performed 7 surgeries to date on her own. During training she was part of 100 plus surgeries. Makes me a bit nervous...

Kathy044

Hi navigating, I'm not in Ottawa so am not able be of much help but I suggest that you introduce yourself by replying to the last post on the Ottawa Ladies topic as it will be more likely to be seen by others who have set that topic as a favourite. Individual posts disappear so fast from the first page in active topics.

https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/55/topic/775263?page=29#idx_860

I'm in British Columbia but I used to live in Ottawa so when I first came to BCO five years ago I used to read all the posts Ottawa women with great interest as I knew of no one closer to home at that time and very little about standard breast cancer treatment in Canada.

Good luck finding others going through this process in your area.

Kathy