Results from a study published in Psycho-Oncology suggest that women with breast cancer recover from negative impacts of mastectomy on body image within four years of surgery, whether they have immediate, delayed, or no breast reconstruction.

The study included 100 women with high‐risk breast cancer who underwent mastectomy and were surveyed annually for four years. Sixty-one women chose immediate breast reconstruction, 16 chose delayed reconstruction, and 23 chose no reconstruction. Investigators found little difference between the timing of breast reconstruction (or no reconstruction) on most long‐term body image scores.

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