Mar 18 2008
This podcast focuses on the numerous breast reconstruction options available to women facing breast cancer. Part 3 of the call features the question and answer session, in which Dr. Aldona Spiegel takes questions from some of our callers. To hear her lecture on this subject, please listen to parts one and two of this podcast.
Mar 18 2008
This podcast focuses on the numerous breast reconstruction options available to women facing breast cancer. Dr. Aldona J. Spiegel, the director of the Center for Breast Restoration in Houston, Tex., provides an overview in plain language of the trends in surgical breast cancer treatment. She discusses the evolution of current breast cancer reconstruction techniques, specifically microsurgical perforator flaps (reconstruction using skin and fat tissue rather than muscle and performed under an operating microscope) and other autologous (from your own tissue) reconstruction options available today. Recent advances in providing innervation (nerve supply) in the flaps used in breast reconstruction will also be explained. Finally, Dr. Spiegel addresses the benefits and risks of breast reconstruction options, with a focus on the need to tailor the procedure to particular needs of the patient.
To hear the rest of her lecture, please listen to part 1.
Mar 18 2008
This podcast focuses on the numerous breast reconstruction options available to women facing breast cancer. Dr. Aldona J. Spiegel, the director of the Center for Breast Restoration in Houston, Tex., provides an overview in plain language of the trends in surgical breast cancer treatment. She discusses the evolution of current breast cancer reconstruction techniques, specifically microsurgical perforator flaps (reconstruction using skin and fat tissue rather than muscle and performed under an operating microscope) and other autologous (from your own tissue) reconstruction options available today. Recent advances in providing innervation (nerve supply) in the flaps used in breast reconstruction will also be explained. Finally, Dr. Spiegel addresses the benefits and risks of breast reconstruction options, with a focus on the need to tailor the procedure to particular needs of the patient.
To hear the rest of her lecture, please listen to part 2.
