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Deleted Mastectomy Breast Is Possible To Grow Again


December 8, 2009.
Hope of restoring lost breast as a result of the operation of mastectomy affected by cancer there gives women a revolutionary technique of Surgeons. During 3-6 months in Australia and the UK there will begin testing the technique in humans, but the tests on animals have shown that the term "growing" a new breast cancer will be a matter of months.

The research team from Melbourne Institute of Microsurgery proposed the latest technology named Neopek considers the use of a small number of fat cells taken from the patient. At the same time, biocompatible structure is implanted under the skin, which should specify the final size of the reconstructed breast.

The resulting cellular material is processed in the laboratory - it increases the concentration of stem cells, and then about 5 million resulting composition is occurred into the space temporarily implanted under the constructed structure. Cavity, in addition, is connected to the blood vessels in the armpits.
Fat tissue, activated by stem cells and fueled by the influx of blood, begins to grow and soon completely fills the space under the frame.

The new technique primarily designed to help women who lost breast because of cancer. At the first stage there will be operations made on those of them who are cured of the disease, and not less than two years ago. Otherwise, there is a risk of re-growth of cancer cells, which is a major new approach, suggest British experts. Meanwhile it is only possible to restore the form, but in the future, the scientists expect to grow also the functional female breast and the breast tissue.

After removal of the temporary frame the patient's breast will become in touch almost indistinguishable from a natural one, say doctors. The new technology, they say, eventually is able to displace silicone implants.

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