Breast cosmesis analysis

Using the Breast Cancer Conservative Treatment (BCCT)-core program, cosmesis was analyzed by comparing photographs of the patients after radiation. Reference frontal photographic images obtained before the initiation of radiotherapy following breast reconstruction and photographs obtained one year after completion of the radiation treatment were analyzed (Fig 3). The cosmesis of the group not receiving radiation was also analyzed using the BCCT-core program (Fig 4).

(A) 43-year old patient 4 weeks after nipple-sparing mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction with a free transverse rectus abdominis flap. (B) After completion of adjuvant radiation therapy. (C) One year after the completion of radiation therapy. Increased symmetry and a decrease in the upper part of the reconstructed breast is observed.

Breast cosmesis assessment using the Breast Cancer Conservative Treatment (BCCT)-core program.