Breast reconstruction awareness among educated women in a metropolitan city.

In western countries, there are low rates of referral to plastic surgeons along with increasing use of reconstructive or oncoplastic surgery by general surgeons with an increasing trend in Europe for general surgeons to take over the entire surgical management of breast cancer patients.[ 6 ] The government, NGOs, and other clinicians must understand that breast reconstruction is not a separate procedure, but a part and parcel of complete treatment of carcinoma breast, and therefore they should involve the plastic surgeons actively in the treatment.

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