Comments on: Medical Researchers Working on Regrowing Breast Tissue after Mastectomy

By: Kristina

Kristina — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:48:01 +0000

this is the greatest news!! I’m 27 and recently had a mastectomy because I had breast cancer. I always secretly wished this option existed – thank God for those scientists who might one day soon make it a reality, even if not for me, for women going through this in the not too distant future!!! AWESOME!!!

By: akamat

akamat — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:54:40 +0000

This is the most wonderfully amazing thing I’ve heard in a very long time!

By: swb1020

swb1020 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:02:41 +0000

I thought that pig bladder was being used to build scaffolding for this very purpose. It’s biodegradable. I have had autologous breast reconstruction. I’m glad I got to have a tummy tuck to put my belly fat to better use, but it was a painful process.

The pig bladder stories I’ve heard were about re-building the esophagus after esophageal cancer and rebuilding the tip of a finger that had been cut off in a woodworking accident. My question at the time was, “what about breasts?”

By: pwscott

pwscott — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:40:32 +0000

I’m wondering why it took this long. I would have thought breast tissue would be the first experiment.

By: Oskie

Oskie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:55:09 +0000

I was heartened to read about this research.

I’ve had one breast removed and reconstructed and although I am very happy with the results I do sometimes wonder if, when the day come to have the implant replaced, if scientists won’t have figured out how to fabricate a droopy looking fake one.

In the meanwhile, I just tell people “it’s the perky one now.” :- )

By: zavatone

zavatone — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:18:55 +0000

Blessed be science. Advancing mankind by advancing womankind.

By: ted

ted — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:16:25 +0000

That’s not a picture of the moon?

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:14:15 +0000

Yay, boobies!

By: Goober

Goober — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:44:11 +0000

Can’t help but wonder if they’d get better funding for their research if they billed it as “natural breast augmentation” rather than reconstruction after a mastectomy. Cuz if it works for reconstruction, it ought to work for turning little boobies into ginourmous boobies.

By: DanoftheNorth

DanoftheNorth — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:14:50 +0000

This could be really something!

I know someone who had a double mastectomy as a way to prevent breast cancer. She had one of the cancer genes (I can’t remember if it was BRCA-1 or BRCA-2) so the doctors said that her chance of getting breast cancer was 60-80% (compared to the average population, whose chance of getting breast cancer is only around 12%). Her mother and grandmother had both passed away from cancer so this was something she felt she should do to survive.

She also had implants done for her reconstruction. The implants go under the chest muscles and she was disappointed because the implants feel really hard. They just don’t have the same kind of softness that natural breasts do. The rigidity might be due to the muscle or maybe the firmness of the gel implant.

I’m not sure how much women know about what to expect after breast reconstruction but I’m glad that scientists are working on a way to help them feel more comfortable and more natural.