Procedure down under gives hope to re-grow breasts
One of the biggest emotional problems endured by women who fight breast cancer is when they have a breast removed in order to give their best possible chance of beating the disease. This often leaves women feeling less than adequate and it is then an easy environment to have depression set in.
Now in Australia a group of scientists are set to conduct a first of its kind procedure that will have breast cancer survivors hopefully re-growing their own breasts. This will give a new hope to the more than 5,000 women down under who lose their breasts to breast cancer surgery each year.
The first round of trials is being conducted at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery and is being called ‘Neopec.’ The procedure will involve implanting a chamber underneath the skin of the patient that is shaped like the breast and then will be filled with the patient’s own fat cells. This in turn will hopefully form a new breast for the patient.
The first round of trials will include five women and their chambers will be taken out after a few months. For all corresponding trials, the chamber will be designed to dissolve while in the patient thus lessening the need for further surgery. ThinkPinker.com is behind this all the way and hopes that the procedures will go off with great success.
