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The prospect of breast reconstruction surgery following a cancer diagnosis can be a cause of significant anxiety for many women. Concerns over what may happen during, and after, surgery can be a worry and trigger a whole range of unanswered questions. With a number of different reconstruction techniques available to breast surgeons, there are often several options and choices women face.

Offering reassurance Independent information available to patients in this position varies but a unique resource being provided by breast cancer reconstruction charity, Keeping Abreast, is offering comfort and reassurance at what is a difficult time. Launched in Norwich in 2007, Keeping Abreast now has support groups across the country with several in the eastern region and has produced a range of videos to help guide breast cancer patients through their reconstructive surgery options, to offer an insight into what they may face, and deliver a degree of reassurance. (Image: Karl Elliott Production Bureau.



) The charity’s online resources for breast cancer patients facing reconstructive surgery have recently been expanded, with four new real-life breast reconstruction videos having been added to the Keeping Abreast website ( www.keepingabreast.org.

uk ). Aimed at women facing breast reconstruction after a breast cancer diagnosis or the discovery of a hereditary breast cancer gene, the new videos have been add to around a dozen different real-life reconstruction videos on the site. All have bee.

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