Radiation hardening the breast implant

Huffpuff
Huffpuff Member Posts: 35
edited December 2016 in Radiation Therapy - Before, During, and After

My small-breasted daughter had a mastectomy and during the surgery, the plastic surgeon put the breast implant under her pectoral muscle and she looks great. However, she now has to undergo radiation and we have heard that 25% of the time the implant hardens with radiation. If so, she will have to undergo another surgery and get another implant. I know most women have sleeves put in at surgery, then undergo radiation, then have implants put in. Does anyone have any advice to prevent hardening of implant as a result of radiation?

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  • KBeee
    KBeee Member Posts: 5,109
    edited December 2016

    I do not think you can do anything to prevent it if. Some people are more susceptible to it, and it depends on radiation dose, etc. I do have a lot of hardening of my implant after radiation, but my body has always made A LOT of scar tissue. Most importantly is that so far, the cancer has not returned again

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  • Ms_Latte
    Ms_Latte Member Posts: 29
    edited December 2016

    hi huffpuff,


    It sounds like a question for the surgeon.... but here's what little I know about that: I had expanders put in at the time of my [double] mastectomy . After a healing period, they started injections of saline into the expanders every couple of weeks. I never was 'inflated' to my desired size because of hardening around the expander (on the side where I was irradiated). I swear it was like a plaster cast. You could thump it. And the tissue wasn't flexible enough to accommodate further enlargement.

    My plastic surgeon mentioned a sheet of something he could lay over the implant when he 'installed it' that would 'dissolve' the crystallization, and I've had no problems since.

    So it won't be that the implant itself hardens... it's the surrounding tissue that is altered during radiation. I think you need to ask questions of your surgeon, and try not to worry in advance about something that may not happen. One would suppose that he wouldn't have chosen that sequence of procedures if it was guaranteed to cause problems. Hope everything goes well for your daughter

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  • Huffpuff
    Huffpuff Member Posts: 35
    edited December 2016

    Thanks. My cousin(breast cancer survivor) told me that an acupuncturist gave her some herbs to make a tea. Within two weeks, her scar tissue was really reduced. So see an acupuncturist or herbalist!

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