Hi. I'm looking for some help on whether to have radiotherapy or not. I'm in a 'marginal' group about whether to have radio and I've also had a mastectomy with Diep-flap reconstruction. The surgery has gone well and the new breast currently looks and feels pretty good. I'm therefore nervous about doing radiotherapy if it is going to significantly change what's been a better than expected outcome in reconstruction. Does anyone have experience of post-mastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) and whether it has/hasn't changed (by which I really mean screwed up..) an own-tissue reconstruction? Thanks!
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