Preserving Your Breast When Mastectomy Is Needed

Breast cancer surgery does not have to leave you disfigured. The woman in this photograph had a mastectomy to remove cancer from her left breast just two months before the picture was taken. Today, she is cancer-free and her body looks and feels much like it did before her diagnosis.

The key to this natural-looking result is a refined breast reconstruction technique known as the Peg Procedure. It allows surgeons to hide a mastectomy scar within the natural anatomical contours of the breast. Reconstruction can then be achieved using your body's own tissue, or with a saline breast implant.

Dr. Edward Knowlton, a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon in Danville, California, pioneered and patented the Peg Procedure technique in 1992. It has been presented before the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, was the lead article in an issue of Contemporary Surgery, and was nationally featured on the popular television drama, Chicago Hope, in 1995. Most importantly, the Peg Procedure has been performed on hundreds of patients... with very satisfying results.

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