What is a prophylactic mastectomy?
Prophylactic mastectomy is an intervention that is indicated to prevent the occurrence of subsequent breast cancer.
For which patients is it indicated?
This type of intervention is indicated in patients who have a high risk of having cancer in the future, those patients who have undergone a genetic study and have cancer indicator genes, or also in those patients who, having undergone surgery for a previous cancer, subsequently have to undergo many diagnostic studies, such as MRIs, mammograms in which the images are not always clear and this produces a certain stress in these tests for this type of patient.
What does the procedure consist of?
The objective of this intervention is to reconstruct a new breast in which there is practically no breast tissue, even with the aim that the aesthetic quality of this breast is better than the one that had the breast previously, for this we will make some inframammary incisions so that they are not seen later and resect as we said almost 99% of breast tissue, because although there is a small portion below what is the nipple areola complex, practically does not have the greatest importance. The objective is that we are going to preserve the skin of the patient’s breast as well as the nipple areola complex, which logically will determine a much better aesthetic result. What is the core of the breast, what is the breast tissue of the breast that we have removed, we will replace it with an anatomical prosthesis which is the one that will best simulate the consistency of a normal breast.