DIY Breast Reconstruction: Device Lets Women Do Part at Home
From: R&D Magazine - 11/16/2016

Doctors are testing a device that would let women do part of their own breast
reconstruction at home.

It's aimed at not only making treatment more comfortable and convenient, but
also giving women a sense of control  - something cancer often takes away.

More than 100,000 women each year in the US have surgery to remove a
cancerous breast, and many of them choose reconstruction with an implant. To
make room for a permanent one, many of them get a tissue expander, a
temporary pouch that is gradually enlarged with saline to stretch the
remaining skin and muscle. This means trips to the doctor every week or two
for several months for injections of saline into the pouch, which can be a
painful ordeal.

Dr. Daniel Jacobs, a Kaiser Permanente plastic surgeon in San Jose, CA had an
idea: Why couldn't a tiny can of compressed gas, like the one he carries to
fix a flat tire, be used to let women inflate their own tissue expanders, a
little each day so there is less stretching at a time and less pain?

Read the entire article at:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2016/11/diy-breast-reconstruction-device-lets-women-do-part-home

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