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As we come to the close of the old year and forge into the New Year it seems a natural time to pause and reflect 🤔🤔🤔. For many it’s been a year filled with tremendous physical and emotional changes. For others it has been yet another year to look in the rear view mirror and be thankful for the distance traveled. We all though, should take the time to reflect , embrace the good with gratitude and be honest with ourselves on the ways we have opportunity to grow in the coming year. Including a link to an article on self reflection that reviews the process in a practical and helpful way. https://thriveworks.com/blog/importance-self-reflection-improvement/ #:~:text=Self%2Dreflection%20is%20the%20key,do%20I%20feel%20this%20way%3F%E2%80%9D

Here’s to 2023 and to our growth! 🎆🎆🎆 Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind 🎶 Should auld acquaintance be forgot for the days of auld Lang syne🎶🎶🎆🎆🎆

Oncoplastics….. it is the concept of thinking / planning surgery for breast cancer or disease in such a way that the tumor is removed and an excellent cosmetic result is achieved. Years ago the focus was on removing the tumor, saving lives and accepting whatever resulted whether it changed the shape or look of the breast or not. Now, we have evolved to new techniques, Oncoplastics, in which we treat the tumor and leave the breast with good shape, form and symmetric to the other side. 😊😊😊. This can be accomplished in many ways. For some we remove the tumor and reshape and lift the breast. For others the incision is placed so that it is inconspicuous and we move tissue around to fill out the area removed to maintain the shape. For others requiring mastectomy we can perform ni**le sparing which preserves the ni**le( if not involved with tumor) and has been shown to have excellent outcomes in women needing mastectomy and wanting reconstruction. The surgeons at LMG Surgical Oncology offer all these techniques. This also includes aesthetic flat closures (carefully crafted) for women choosing mastectomy with out reconstruction. More recently we also perform Goldilocks closure , in which some of the inferior flap is used to simulate a small breast mound without the use of implants. This makes a breast that is not to big, not too small but just right 😃…. Hence the name Goldilocks. 💕💕💕 pictured here are drawings of lumpectomy in reduction mammoplasty which is one of the Onco plastic techniques. If you’re interested in learning more here’s a link to a great article.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886147/