If everything is all right the patient will finish treatment and can proceed to the next step in life which is breast reconstruction in many cases. Even if the breast cancer patient had only a part of the breast removed during surgery, it may look inaesthetic and the size of the breasts will be different, so they will choose to have the breast reconstructed and that is why they need a plastic surgeon. Sometimes the job of this surgeon is very difficult because a lot of breast cancer patients have suffered a mastectomy, that is their whole breast was removed in order to get rid of the cancer tissue. This operation is challenging because in the end the result must be two equally sized breasts, so in fact both breasts must undergo plastic surgery.
These surgical procedures are a lot more common that you would think and a lot of people who suffered from breast cancer had one, including normal people and Hollywood stars. For example breast cancer survivor Christina Applegate was very open about her condition and talked freely about it and told the press that she suffered from breast cancer , had a partial mastectomy, so she had to go through a reconstructive surgery in order to have normal breasts again.
So breast cancer screening and video plastic surgery are in fact two important concerns for a breast cancer survivor. But why video plastic surgery? Well, the patients are usually very scared about their future appearance, about the way they will look like in the future and also very insecure about it. So the best way to calm down and have the power to enter the surgery is to convince themselves of the way their breasts will be after that. That is why plastic surgeons have purchased some very sophisticated software applications that can be used for showing the patient a video plastic surgery. This is a video file, a computer application with the picture af the patients' breasts before and after surgery. It is in fact an estimation of the future appearance.
But the visual impact is very strong, so most of the patients want to see this application first in order to make sure that things will be in order. Actually, if you are persistent enough, you can fins a private surgeon who is both specialized in breast cancer surgery, that is in removing your cancer lumps and also reconstructive surgery. And sometimes the second part of the surgery is also included in the procedures that are covered by the health insurance. But this is the ideal case. usually you have to go in two separate directions to solve both problems.