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Thank you
....to those who contacted Mayo to let them know that they've got bad info out there. It's so important.
I sat in once on a breast reconstruction session on breastcancer.org. One of the discussion leaders was a prominent bc surgeon here in Philadelphia. She, along with another prominent surgeon from Johns Hopkins, answered questions and talked about DIEP surgery and how wonderful it was that they had found a way to reconstruct using tissue without taking muscle.
When I called that surgeon's practice to see about the surgery, the person answering the phone told me "we don't do that type of surgery because we don't think it works". And that was at a NCI cancer center here in Philadelphia.
The reality is that DIEP involves a lot of microsurgery so many many plastic surgeons are just not capable of doing it.
Made me wonder how many women took that as gospel and had another type of reconstruction that was not their first choice.
I did have DIEP but I had it done in Baltimore. I highly recommend this type of reconstruction and am still appalled at that response.
Thank god there are groups like you out there to educate people and when necessary, protect them.
I will email the mayo site too, just in case the strength in numbers theory applies here.
Ginagce
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