FAQs

Surgeons of the Breast Specialist Group at HBC are experts in offering Nipple Sparing Mastectomy by which the nipples could be saved in select group of patients.

Having prior abdominal surgery may have damaged the tissues used in DIEP flap but feasibility can be addressed only after a thorough examination by our Plastic surgeons.

Yes. Breast Reconstruction can be done any time after radiation. Whole breast reconstruction can be done using various flaps and even implants could be used to increase the size of the breasts as desired.

Partial reconstruction of the breast is best done by Oncoplastic techniqes and HBC experts have extensive expertise in the same. Dr Ramesh Maturi is one of the select few in this country with this capabilities.
Whole breast reconstruction could be done with patient own body tissues using DIEP flap. Our plastic surgeon is one of the few surgeons in Hyderabad having this experience.

• Hyderabad Breast Clinics offer all Breast Related services including specialist diagnostics like Mammogram, MRI Breast etc. We have tied up specialist pathologists who are trained in Breast diseases.
• Initial consultation and workup would be done by Dr Babitha & Dr Ramesh Maturi. Services of Dr Srinath Plastic Surgeon would be available for operative procedures. HBC has a Radiation and Medical Oncologists to provide necessary treatments for Breast Cancer.
• Is breast reconstruction covered by insurance?

Whole Breast Reconstruction can be done either immediately or delayed and the same would be discussed in detail by the experts of HBC

The experts of Breast Specialist Group at Hyderabad Breast Clinics are focussed in Breast diseases over 2 decades and are able to address all your concerns. Our Breast surgeons are exclusively trained in Breast Conservation and unique in offering Oncoplastic surgeries for Breast Cancer.

Hyderabad Breast Clinics has special arrangements with Ankura Hospitals across the city and few other Speciality hospitals in case of patient needing multispeciality care or critical care services in view of Age, Hypertension or Diabetes etc.

Surgery for Breast Cancer, traditionally consists of Removal of the entire breast called, Mastectomy. Oncoplasty is a method to retain the breast while removing the cancer surgically.

Breast Conservation surgery is a form of cancer surgery for breast where entire breast is not removed, but just the tumuor with a good margin of normal tissue. Breast Oncoplasty is the newer and better method of Breast Conservation surgery .

Traditional Breast Conservation surgery aims at removal of the tumor tissue with adequate margin while there was not much focus on post surgical aesthetics. Hence, post operatively, breasts were significantly deformed causing emotional stress for these women.

There is enough data through several Meta analysis across various centres in the world, that long term followup and survivals are as good if not better with Breast Oncoplastic Surgery.

Breast oncoplasty is a new technique and unfortunately has not been offered across teaching institutes. Oncoplastic surgical techniques need specialised training and focussed planning.

The standard treatment of breast cancer consists of Surgery, with Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy as indicated for each patient. So further treatments will be as usual, as indicated by the disease stage. Radiotherapy will be given to the entire residual breast.

The workup and investigations done to confirm and stage the disease are similar. Imaging investigations like MRI might be done for all patients to help in surgical planning.

Oncoplastic surgery is technically complicated than traditional breast surgery. Frozen section would be routinely done to ensure margins are clear before proceeding to reconstruct the breast.All these steps would lead to increase the duration of the surgery.

An average stay of Oncoplastic surgery patient would last between 48hrs – 4 days. Discharge is predominantly dependent on the anaesthetist recommendations and the ability of the patient to take care of her self at home.

When breast conservation surgery is done for breast cancer, only a portion of the breast is lost and which needs to be reconstructed. Breast oncoplasty is a method of partial breast reconstruction. In oncoplastic techniques, a predominant attempt would be to reconstruct using the residual breast tissue.

Following partial resection (removal) of breast tissue, reconstruction of the breast is done using either residual breast tissue ( Volume Displacement technique) or bringing tissue from other parts of the patient body ( Volume Replacement).

Breast Cancer surgery is done by three methods: Mastectomy, BCS, Oncoplasty. Of all these three Oncoplasty is the most expensive method, due to prolonged duration of surgery, complicated techniques used and involvement of plastic surgeon too.

All patients who have disease confined to breast and axilla, and in principle do not have multiple disease foci, unless they are all in the same quadrant of the breast. Further patient should be a non smoker and we generally discourage for Diabetics unless under good control.