new technique cáncer reconstructed breast affected by Hospital Clinic of Barcelona presented a new technique to reconstruct the breast to women who have had breast cancer, with fat grafts that are implanted body without scarring.
The head of the Plastic Surgery Medical Center, Joan Fontdevila, said at a news conference that the new technique is much simpler than those used so far to repair affected by breast tumor tissue as obtaining large areas body to carry out a reconstruction or the use of prostheses.
He explained that this is a technique similar to liposuction, in which the surgeon takes fat under the skin with the help of a cannula (small tubes) special in any area of the body, leaving scars less than three millimeters.
After removing the fat, processed in the operating room to clean it, separating the red cells and plasma, and subsequently injected into the affected breast by mastectomy, without the need for a new scar.
The operation takes about two hours and recovery time is much smaller, which improves the condition of the patients, who have to endure surgery to remove the cancer and aggressive treatments of chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
According Fontdevila, with this new method of regeneration could cover 80% of patients with cancer who have had breast conserving surgery, and specify a percentage for other types of more radical surgery.
This technique has the disadvantage that cannot be made until after three to nine months after the operation to remove the tumor or after completion of chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions.