Breast Cancer Patients Need The Right To Choose

by Dr. Phillip Chang

As a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, my patients need informed choices no matter what procedures they might be interestedin. In an informal survey of my patients in Loudoun Virginia who have had breast reconstruction procedures from other surgeons, I have found that most patients were not informed of all the methods of breast reconstructions available. Most patients were only given the options of breast reconstruction with breast implants or a breast reconstruction with their own tissue through a pedicled flap. More sophisticated techniques such as reconstruction through a microvascular flapwere not offered. Many patients are not offered the option of a microvascular DIEP or TRAM Flap reconstruction because it takes the most sophisticated techniques and the most technical experience. And it is this last technique, that most insurance companies are decreasing their financial compensations for.

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