TRAM Flap Surgery

Oct 16

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A cure for breast cancer may still be far off, but efforts to make survivors feel a lot better about themselves are slowly gaining headway, one breast at a time.

Like most women who have survived breast cancer after undergoing a mastectomy, Heather Bashaw had to deal with the fact that she is already missing an important part of her body.

But all that will hopefully change as she goes under a plastic surgeon’s knife for TRAM flap surgery, a reconstructive surgical procedure designed to create Bashaw a new breast using part her own abdomen. The procedure, in effect, is something akin to a tummy tuck.

The Hamilton Spectator tells us more:

TRAM stands for transverse rectus abdominis muscle, located in the abdomen. In the procedure, a section of skin, fat and muscle is surgically relocated and reshaped into a breast, often with its original blood supply intact. It's not a new operation, but it's one that Bashaw had never heard of until her surgeon brought it up, and it's one that she wants other women to know about, especially since it is funded by OHIP.

According to Bashaw, she’s undergoing the operation, which is expected to take from six to eight hours, so she could “feel more natural again”.

This is absolutely good news for women who have had to suffer the pain of losing an essential body part. It is common among survivors to feel depressed or disfigured after a mastectomy. Hopefully, this one takes care of all that.

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