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JDP
JDP Member Posts: 14
edited June 2014 in High Risk for Breast Cancer

A few months ago, I underwent a biopsy for ADH.  Fortunately, all of the offending tissue was removed and I am one of the lucky ones, though still considered high risk.  The problem is that the amount of tissue removed was large enough to leave my small breast looking very disfigured.  Have any of you undergone breast reconstruction and or augmentation after a biopsy or lumpectomy?  Is this something that is even done?

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  • MinAZ
    MinAZ Member Posts: 368
    edited August 2008

    JDP - Yes, you can do reconstruction after a lumpectomy. I'm a mastectomy gal, so can't give you details but a gal I know who just had it done last week.  Assuming you had radiation, that will be a factor, so be sure you get a good plastic surgeon. There are gals on these boards who have had  this procedure so I imagine you'll be hearing more soon.

    Minz 

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  • MinAZ
    MinAZ Member Posts: 368
    edited August 2008

    JDP - Sorry nobody is responding to you. Why don't you post on the Reconstruction board, more likely to find someone there who can tell you something helpful.

    Minz 

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  • JDP
    JDP Member Posts: 14
    edited August 2008

    Thanks. I'll try posting there.

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  • turnberry
    turnberry Member Posts: 42
    edited August 2008

    Hi,

    I went through a surgical biopsy last year for ADH as well.  Fortunately my breast seems okay.  I'm just curious - did you undergo radiation?  I have heard people that have had ADH sometimes do have radiation but it was never suggested to me.  Unfortunately, the calcifications that were removed are coming back and I go in again in October for yet another mammo and meet with the surgeon. 

    Good luck with reconstruction!

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited August 2008

    Turnberry, I had 2 biopsies/lumpectomies 18 months apart for ADH - once in each breast. I did not get rads for it but when I had the dx of DCIS in the same area as the 2nd surgery, I opted for bilat mast. After the first dx of ADH I was put on a 6 month mammo schedule to keep track on what was going on.

    Sheila

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  • JDP
    JDP Member Posts: 14
    edited August 2008
    Radiation was never even mentioned.  I suppose it was because the biopsy clearly removed all the ADH, which was  over a small focused area anyhow.  Fortunately, I just returned for my 6month mammogram, and checked out ok.  I'm still a bit confused about the pros and cons of reconstruction after an excisional biopsy.  Maybe reconstruction isn't really what would be needed in this case, but perhaps a straightforward implant?  ...actually, two would be good, to get up to at least a symmetrical B cup on both sides! Smile
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  • KC1
    KC1 Member Posts: 23
    edited August 2008

    I had a lumpectomy too. My breast doesn't look the same either, and the nipple tips upward, but it's OK..... The tumor is gone and I'm alive.  That's what matters to me.

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