Breast Reconstruction With An Implant

Your plastic surgeon has proposed to reconstruct one or both of your breasts using an implant. This fact sheet describes all the steps of the surgery and how to prepare yourself.

Treatments and surgical operations , Cancer, Oncology, Breast cancer

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