A woman on a plastic surgery message board that I frequent said that her surgeon scraped her natural breast tissue before inserting her implants to decrease her risk of developing breast cancer in the future. I'd never heard of such a thing, is this practiced common?
January 12, 2012
Answer: "Scraping" breast tissue not common.
There is no procedure that I'm familiar with which involves scraping of a breast to reduce cancer risk. Most likely this was a misinterpretation of what this women had done (not uncommon at all!).
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January 12, 2012
Answer: "Scraping" breast tissue not common.
There is no procedure that I'm familiar with which involves scraping of a breast to reduce cancer risk. Most likely this was a misinterpretation of what this women had done (not uncommon at all!).
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March 22, 2011
Answer: Fibrocystic disease
I have had two patients who have previously had subcutaneous mastectomies (possibly misinterpreted as "scraping") for fibrocystic breast disease and had implants placed. Not performed any longer as far as I know. It is certainly odd to be told this by any plastic surgeon.
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March 22, 2011
Answer: Fibrocystic disease
I have had two patients who have previously had subcutaneous mastectomies (possibly misinterpreted as "scraping") for fibrocystic breast disease and had implants placed. Not performed any longer as far as I know. It is certainly odd to be told this by any plastic surgeon.
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