A walk through the philosophical, medical and esthetic dilemmas of breast reconstruction after mastectomy. One surprising finding is that many women opt to enlarge their breast(s) in the reconstruction process, even though in doing so they greatly prolong and intensify the pain of an already-painful process. Mastectomy is a procedure on the rise in the U.S., and some 57,000 breast cancer patients were reconstructed in 2007.
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