Breast Reduction Gallery

Before and after bilateral breast reconstruction using the breast reduction and lift method in a 69-year-old woman with right breast cancer.  She was a candidate for a breast reduction anyway, and she did not want to have a full mastectomy as her breast cancer treatment.

After she finished neoadjuvant chemotherapy, a right lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy was planned together with a bilateral breast reduction and lift.  After surgery, she underwent right breast and chest wall radiation therapy for five and a half weeks.    

Follow up photos are shown a year and a half after surgery, and 15 months after completion of radiation.  The right radiated breast is still darker and more swollen than the left, as expected.  These radiation-related changes will fade with time.