When Melanie Law's life depended on having her breasts removed, her appearance was the least of her concerns. But strangers and even health professionals saw it as an issue.
When Melanie Law's life depended on having her breasts removed, she wasn't the least bit concerned about her appearance. But strangers and even health professionals made her feel like she should be."My surgeon was worried about my mental health — if I wasn't going to proceed with reconstruction, she was worried I'd be self-conscious."
"I wanted to get out of the medical system because I had five months of every day either having phone calls, appointments, procedures, treatments," she said. She said women should be offered chest-inclusive options with equal weighting ahead of their mastectomies — both reconstruction and flat closure, which is when women choose not to have implants or breasts reconstructed from tissue from other parts of the body.After her first mastectomy Joanna Atzori couldn't bear to look in the mirror, but soon the breast cancer survivor will be modelling lingerie on a fashion runway.
"The reasons often cited for low reconstruction rate in Australia is accessibility — that it is influenced by cost and availability, rather than women's personal preferences to go flat."Breast Surgeons of Australia and New Zealand president Dr Melanie Walker said women should always be offered all options and informed of the pros and cons.She said in her experience, being flat was "always" discussed, and that breast reconstruction was not offered enough more broadly.
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